Oaxaca culture

A tiliche figure on a wall in Oaxaca. There is a tall hat with a folded up, rectangular brim, a face made with natural fibers that look like the entire face is a beard, out of which sticks a pointy red nose, there are two black eyes set in the fibers, and the body is made up entirely of colorful rectangular strips of fabric, around 2 inches wide and five or six inches long, flapping in the breeze along the street

What are the scarecrows in big hats and rainbow rags around Oaxaca?

by Mark
September 5, 2022September 5, 2022
Arts & Culture, Travel

While I was in Oaxaca recently, around the time of the Gueleguetza, I noticed all of these figures around town that I hadn’t seen before on previous visits. They looked like scarecrows in big hats… Read More »What are the scarecrows in big hats and rainbow rags around Oaxaca?