El Relicario (The Shrine)

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Collection Citation: Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Michael Plyler photographs from Guatemala, image #, NMAI.AC.071; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.

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Scope and Contents: Photograph of a shrine in San Pedro La Laguna. Photographed by Michael Plyler. Same image as Neg#50 in Subseries 5.2. Description from Plyler: "As I was walking down the sidewalk not far from where I had photographed Domingo two years earlier, I spied this shrine through the living room window that fronted on the sidewalk. I got the owner's permission to make this photograph with the 4x5. The man pictured in the photograph was the owner's brother and had died only two or three weeks earlier."

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NMAI.AC.071

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Michael Plyler photographs from Guatemala

Creator

Plyler, Michael, 1955-

Summary

This collection consists of photographic prints, negatives, and transparencies taken by Michael Plyler between 1982 and 2018 that depict the everyday lives of five Highland Maya community groups from Guatemala. Also included are images of churches, buildings, and historic structures from Guatemala.