This painting at the anthropology museum in Mexico City depicts a Zapotec woman from the Istmo of Tehuantepec in a traditional huipil, skirt, and the famous huipil grande headdress

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This ceramic piece from San Bartolo Coyotepec Oaxaca Mexico depicts a skeleton dressed in the gala costume of a Zapotec woman from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec

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An 1914 oil painting depicts a Zapotec woman from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec wearing a "resplendor"
This is actually the lace hem (holan) of a girl's dress which frames the face.

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She is dressed to attend a fiesta in Juchitan in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec of Oaxaca Mexico. This doll belongs the the extensive collection of Mexican costume dolls created by Maria Esther Zuno de Echeverria. Museo de Arte Popular

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This beautiful huipil and skirt combination would be worn by a Zapotec woman from the Istmo of Tehuantepec area of Oaxaca, Mexico. Exhibited at the Museo de Arte Popular in Mexico City

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