More market scenes

More market pictures. Because you deserve it :)
Note the hipiles that the women are wearing. Despite it's reputation for being the hipil capital of the world, Ticul did not live up to it's hipil-makin' hype. Or, possibly, Ginger and I just didn't go to the right places- one can never be sure. Another spelling of the garment might, just possibly might, be huipil. But we saw it written down in a few places and always spelled hipil. Now, the huipil is what I've always called it, because that's the name for the women's shirt-thing that the highland maya wear. It is a shirt and it's highly decorated with embroidery and it's worn tucked in at the waist and with a wide belt and skirt. So the dress that the Yucatecan Maya women wear is not exactly the same because it's a one-piece long dress, worn over a slip-like skirt with lots of decorative lace at the hem. Some of the fancier ones had embroidery on the lacy slip part that matched the embroidery on the dress itself. That would have been the one of my dreams, but the ones we were able to find were all too expensive. Alas.