Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Samuel K. Lothrop photograph collection, NMAI.AC.001.010. National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.
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Scope and Contents
View in the small village of La Ceiba on the road from Cuscatlán to Santa Tecla in the Eastern Zone of La Libertad, El Salvador. A man, possibly the Padre in the village, is stading in front of a stone grotto with a saint. Within the grotto there are two stone figures from Cuscatlán. Being the grotto is a large tree, likely a Ceiba tree, which is considered sacred to the Lenca people.
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