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  • Day Seven in Photos

    Migdonio Rivas Rico, chirimía music instrument maker from Quibdó in the Pacific region
    Photo by Samantha Hawkins/Smithsonian Institution

    Heavy rain started coming down on the National Mall at about 4:00 p.m., closing the Festival down for the day. We will reopen again tomorrow at 11 a.m. Here are some of the great shots our photographers captured before the rain.

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