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| Francisca
was one of 11 children. Nine siblings are still living, four live in the
United States, 2 in Cocucho. She was married at 16, had her first child
at 18, six children followed by the time she was 28. Her life is not easy,
very much on survival level. It is a life of self-sacrifice and brutal,
hard work to insure her children have what they need. She is amazingly strong.
She carries the giant cocuchas wrapped in her rebozo. I asked her what she
would like to see in her future. She replied, “I would like to end
the suffering in our life”. Still, as you can see from this photo,
she bears it with a smile. She is only 31 years old. |
Felix was 21 when he married. To support his family, he had to work in Guadalajara, a 6-hour bus ride away, where he became a master albañil (builder) in construction. Five years ago wanting to be with his family, he and Francisca learned how to build cocuchas with the help of his mother. He has a particularly good eye from his 10-year experience as a builder that allows him to create the high quality, free-form, hand-built cocuchas that he and Francisca sell. He is one of six children; two of his siblings live in the US. Cocucho is one of the many pueblos in Mexico, where the men leave the pueblo and seek work in the US to support their families. The result is the women raise their children alone. |
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