guatemalan indian teens preparing tortillas

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Guatemalan Indian family preparing tortillas Royalty Free Stock Photo

Guatemalan teens knead ground corn into dough Royalty Free Stock Photo

Guatemalan Indian teens preparing tortillas

Guatemala, department Alto Verapaz: group portrait of Indian teenagers and mothers working together, preparing a meal, cooking tortillas, the national food in Guatemalan, South American, kitchen, in their kitchen in the village San Cristobal, in the highlands near Coban. The traditional tortilla is made Ã¢â¬â¹Ã¢â¬â¹of corn, maize, flour and lime water and knead to dough. Then the dough is push flat into thin pancakes, flatbreads and baked. A girl is dough crushing, kneading, into a flat disk and the other teen is the corn to grind on a stone mano and metate. Cooking is the work of women and girls.