Fiesta de San Marcos, April 24-25

A celebration of the patron Saint Mark. The Tlapanec Indians celebrate the Fiesta de Akunyia, a water god, in conjunction with Saint Mark. This festival includes divination, animal sacrifice, and incantations. These slides document processions, dances, musicians, offerings, churches, ephemera, fireworks displays, bull riding, and other traditions associated with this festival as celebrated in these various villages and towns.

These slides are housed in LSF Container L and Container M.

A descriptive narrative of these slides is found on audiocassette #6 side A, which is housed in LSF Container RR.