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    Day Seven in Photos

    July 8, 2011 | Comments
    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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    • Visitors read the messages exchanged in the RPC Village of the Peace Corps program.
    • Peace Corps Baba (Oumar Cissé), founder of the bead museum Farafina Tigne, is sharing information about his work in the Mali area of the Peace Corps program
    • Tongan weaver Mele Vaikeli and Moroccan weaver Khadija Ighilnassaf.
    • Moroccan weaver Fatima Akachmar works at her loom.
    • Peace Corps program cooking demonstration by members of the Rehoboth Children's Home Dance Team.
    • Migdonio Rivas Rico, chirimía music instrument maker from Quibdó in the Pacific region, specializes in percussion instruments.
    • Tobías “Totón” Herrera Turizo, religious art sculptor from Mompox, demonstrates wood carving.
    • Smooth & EZ Hand Dance Institute.
    • María Rosa Yucuna de Valencia is a Yucuna ceramicist who learned the craft from her mother and grandmother.
    • Samuel Mármol Villa of the group Don Abundio y sus Traviesos performs the carnivalesque farotas.
    • Visitors read the messages exchanged in the RPC Village of the Peace Corps program.
      Photo by Rebecca Weil, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives.
    • Peace Corps Baba (Oumar Cissé), founder of the bead museum Farafina Tigne, is sharing information about his work in the Mali area of the Peace Corps program.
      Photo by Rebecca Weil/Smithsonian Institution.
    • Tongan weaver Mele Vaikeli and Moroccan weaver Khadija Ighilnassaf.
      Photo by Samantha Hawkins, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives.
    • Moroccan weaver Fatima Akachmar works at her loom.
      Photo by Samantha Hawkins, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives.
    • Peace Corps program cooking demonstration by members of the Rehoboth Children's Home Dance Team.
      Photo by Samantha Hawkins, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives.
    • Migdonio Rivas Rico, chirimía music instrument maker from Quibdó in the Pacific region, specializes in percussion instruments.
      Photo by Samantha Hawkins, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives.
    • Tobías “Totón” Herrera Turizo, religious art sculptor from Mompox, demonstrates wood carving.
      Photo by Samantha Hawkins, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives.
    • Smooth & EZ Hand Dance Institute.
      Photo by Samantha Hawkins, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives.
    • María Rosa Yucuna de Valencia is a Yucuna ceramicist who learned the craft from her mother and grandmother.
      Photo by Walter Larrimore, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives.
    • Samuel Mármol Villa of the group Don Abundio y sus Traviesos performs the carnivalesque "farotas."
      Photo by Walter Larrimore, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives.
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