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Up on the stage, the next generation of traditional dancers performed

 

Scenes from the National Artisans' Fair

photos by Eric Jackson

 

a diablito doll

 

harpy eagle catching a sloth, by a Wounaan tagua nut sculptor

 

 

Woven Embera masks from the Darien

 

 

a sloth, on a painted and varnished slice of wood

 

a brown angel, in ceramic

 

coconut husk sculpture

 

the girls in the ceramic choir

 

the national culinary arts were not ignored

 

notice the number of applique and reverse applique layers on this mola

 

beadwork

 

basket weaving

 

a most intricate non-traditional mola

 

another non-traditional mola

 

They make these figurines --- and the adult-sized costumes --- out of bark

 

an oil painting of an Ngobe girl

 

"Panama hats" are made in Ecuador, but these are the real Panamanian hats

 

a Panamanian grand entry requires a murga, for which you need tambores

 

ancient and modern designs at this batea stand

 

... and all this wasn't the half of it!

 

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