IN LOVING MEMORY of doña MARINA
THANK YOU, DOÑA MARINA, FOR YOUR LEGACY!
𝟐𝟓/𝟏𝟐/𝟏𝟗𝟓𝟒 – 𝟐1/𝟎𝟖/𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓
The historical memory of Boruca has not been written with paper and pencil: it has been woven with cotton threads. With each fiber spun by Boruca weavers, an ancestral story lives on.
Each pattern woven into the textiles are sacred codes that guard the worldview of a people who resisted warlike conquest, preserving their identity through the centuries.
The colors of each fabric contain a map of knowledge about plants, snails, roots, and clay. Those colors and designs, which seem repetitive, actually hide the genealogies of the grandmothers and the grandmothers of the grandmothers. Therein lie our agricultural cycles, and also our origin myths.
Those hands that weave today move to the same rhythm as our ancestral grandmothers, never to be forgotten: it is a thread that has never been broken.
Each blanket, each bag, each garment woven by Doña Marina is a page in a living book, to be updated in due time by each new generation.
Because the textile memory inherited by Doña Marína Lázaro Morales can be transformed, but never erased, because they are fragments of an ancient history: spun, dyed, warped, and woven with a spirit of resistance.
𝒢𝒾𝓁𝒷𝓇𝓉 𝒢ℴ𝓃𝓏𝒶́𝓁ℯ𝓏 𝒳𝒶𝓇ℴ𝓉ℴ
I, Susie, was so blessed to receive one of the last runners woven by doña Marina .
Marina was the dynamo that kept the Borucan village going by promoting the artwork of many of the craftsmen and craftswomen in the pueblo. Thank you doña Marina!
BORUCA.......
The Borucan’s, are very proud to have survived the struggles between the native tribes and Spanish conquistadors in the 1500s with their village and sense of identity intact. While many indigenous tribes consider themselves to have been defeated by the Spanish, Boruca demonstrates that a tribe cannot be defeated if its culture is still alive today. Boruca is very much alive and fighting to preserve their identity.
DON ISMAEL
Don Ismael, one of the elders, was the only living person to have been declared a 'cultural patron of the country'. In the early 70's he revived mask carving, as it was a dying art. Don (an esteemed title similar to 'sir') Ismael devoted his life to keeping the cultural heritage of their ancestors alive and also developing a means to generate income for the community.
Boruca is built on faith in the wisdom of elders and the Borucan legends they tell, passed down for centuries. The identity of Boruca reflects a deep respect for the stories told, the nature that surrounds them, and the community they share. Thru their crafts, daily life in Boruca is focused on cultural preservation.
FOR MORE INFORMATION :
SUSAN ATKINSON (ENGLISH)..+506-8381 4369 (COSTA RICA)
OR.... Idania Spanish (BORUCA DE COSTA RICA)..+506-8466 9151