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On Mexico’s Sonoran coast, Indigenous Comcaac women root ancestral basket weaving in the paranormal
On Mexico's Sonoran coast, the women of the Comcaac people keep alive an ancestral basket-weaving tradition bound up with their nomadic life and spiritual beliefs.
A rare, poetic glimpse into Comcaac women keeping an ancestral craft alive.
Connecting with the Comcáac people on the Sonoran coastline in Mexico, director Enrique M. Rizo meets an Indigenous community held together by its women for the short film Un Canto por el Desierto – translated as A Song
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