Photos taken by Eleniki

Mezcla lady

This lady´s hair is white, and she isn´t wearing a hat - she is probably of ´mezcla´race, some Ecuadorian spanish and some quichua.

• Date: 23 November 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Ecuador
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Quichua man

• Date: 23 November 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Ecuador
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No dentists here..

• Date: 23 November 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Ecuador
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Felt hat

This hat is made of boiled wool, placed on a mould and beaten to its bowler shape

• Date: 23 November 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Ecuador
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Socializing

Three different styles of dress, but they all speak the same language..

• Date: 23 November 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Ecuador
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Market day

• Date: 23 November 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Ecuador
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Quichua dress

The colours and shapes vary from community to community, but the basics for women are skirts to the knee or long, ornate blouses, heavy wool ponchos and of course, a felt hat.

• Date: 23 November 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Ecuador
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Vote!

Support for political parties is often expressed in ´graffiti´right through the countryside

• Date: 23 November 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Ecuador
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Load

Even very old women carry heavy loads of feed for their animals

• Date: 23 November 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Ecuador
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Working in the fields

Men and women alike wear traditional dress, which can seem impractical for long days of labour in the fields

• Date: 23 November 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Ecuador
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Hut

This home was a bit bigger than most

• Date: 23 November 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Ecuador
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Caparina indian, Chimborazo

The Quichua speaking communities of the Chimborazo region south of Riobamba wear red ponchos and wool hats

• Date: 23 November 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Ecuador
• Tags: quichua
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Patchwork

Every foot of land is cultivated, often at vertiginous angles- the fields are very beautiful

• Date: 23 November 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Ecuador
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Sunday walk

• Date: 23 November 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Ecuador
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Elderly couple

• Date: 23 November 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Ecuador
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Chimborazo

Ecuador´s highest volcano. Makes the word 'majestic' seem ordinary

• Date: 23 November 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Ecuador
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Textura rica del campo

• Date: 23 November 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Ecuador
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Tilled avenue

• Date: 23 November 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Ecuador
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Holed-up

• Date: 23 November 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Ecuador
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Mine!

This lucky little girl was fiercely protective of her lolly

• Date: 23 November 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Ecuador
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Child mother

Girls have babies at a very young age - this girl wasn´t much more than 14

• Date: 23 November 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Ecuador
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indigenous women

• Date: 23 November 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Ecuador
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Lollipop

This little girl was happy because the Riobamba train was passing, and tourists buy lollipops on board to hand out through the windows

• Date: 23 November 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Ecuador
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Colores del campo

• Date: 23 November 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Ecuador
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Cultivation at altitude

• Date: 23 November 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Ecuador
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