Hand-woven bags for sale
At the Otavalo market, a woman stands near a market stall laden with colorful wool bags of all shapes and sizes. (Learn more)
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Among all the indigenous people in Ecuador, those who live in the Otavalo Valley have become the most commercially successful — largely because of the reputation of their hand-woven items among international tourists and traders.
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Photographs by Margery Freeman · Text by Emily Jack and William M. Wisser
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