Mexican Crafts
Near the Farmer's market on Saturday was a woman with a small stall of things apparently made by indigenous Mexican people. I think she was also Mexican herself. There were some fabrics and some jewellery, and also lots of Frida Kahlo postcards and some bags with her on (which hadn't been made by the indigenous people, she just really liked her). They also had these beaded animals where brightly coloured beads are stuck onto a wooden form. For some reason Mexican people like bright colours, whereas in NZ no one particularly likes colours at all...
There were wooden turtles where the shell lifted up like a lid so you could put stuff inside and the top of the shell was beaded, which I considered getting as a present for Mum, but I thought they'd be very expensive.
Instead I got the first thing I liked, which was a beaded deer, and when I said I wanted to get it, she said "Really?!" and seemed very surprised, and said NZ people didn't buy those ones usually. I think maybe it is the aversion to colour thing? And also in Dunedin, an aversion to spending more than a certain amount of money on a single item, limiting people to cheap things, usually whatever cheap jewellery every stall in town is selling.
The other is a carving of a wolf on a piece of bamboo, for Gwri.
Here's the picture:
The light's not the best; he should be brighter, and look less like something which had it's photo taken in dim light, which it had, and it always makes things look funny. But he is very cheerful all the same.
There were wooden turtles where the shell lifted up like a lid so you could put stuff inside and the top of the shell was beaded, which I considered getting as a present for Mum, but I thought they'd be very expensive.
Instead I got the first thing I liked, which was a beaded deer, and when I said I wanted to get it, she said "Really?!" and seemed very surprised, and said NZ people didn't buy those ones usually. I think maybe it is the aversion to colour thing? And also in Dunedin, an aversion to spending more than a certain amount of money on a single item, limiting people to cheap things, usually whatever cheap jewellery every stall in town is selling.
The other is a carving of a wolf on a piece of bamboo, for Gwri.
Here's the picture:
The light's not the best; he should be brighter, and look less like something which had it's photo taken in dim light, which it had, and it always makes things look funny. But he is very cheerful all the same.
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