A Nahuatl family from a village -- "remote mountain village" would be an understatement -- near Cuautlapan, between Cordoba and Orizaba in central Mexico. (The map location I've given in approximate; there's no way I ever could pinpoint this place, and there are dozens like it.) I was there to help an anthropologist for a few weeks in a translation project. Family consists of patriarch, his legal wife (to his right), his two other "wives," their collective children, and his mother-in-law. They spoke no English, of course. They also spoke very little Spanish. A couple of the women spoke no Spanish at all. The village church is higher up the mountainside behind them. The village was accessible via a very treacherous bus ride. Wish I could remember the name of the place but I didn't obsess as much on such things back then.
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