Alvin Starkman M.A., LL.B.
Every Sunday Gloria awakens at 3 am, and begins preparing tejate, a frothy, tasty corn and cacao based drink, which she will offer for sale in the Tlacolula market. A couple of hours later her sister-in-law Mara and Maria's daughter Luci follow suit, but in preparation for their own day of vending pre-Hispanic-style figures and masks, comals, and an assortment of other fired clay bowls, cups, plates and containers. Sundays, the women laugh, is their day of rest, when they don't have to worry about scrounging for firewood, tending fields, lugging raw material for kneading into clay — the lifeblood of their economic existence — and in the case of Mara, looking after preparing breakfast for Luci and her older brother and getting them off to school.

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