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  • Cross | Chilili, 2007
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  • Community songs | Chilili, 2007
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  • The Matachine dancers get dressed in the parking lot before their first performance of the weekend. "It's just a tradition, it's a tradition that our ancestors left us from a long time ago. The Matachines come and they dance to the patron saint in respect." said life long resident Ernest Gutierrez...-----------..STORY SUMMARY: ..Small communities around New Mexico come together each year on traditional feast days. The East Mountains community of Chilili New Mexico celebrated the feast of San Juan Neponuceno on Aug. 3. For generations, a day of dancing, praying and feasting has brought the community of Chilili together. The residents do it for blessings, for fun, for each other. A mix of Spanish, Mexican, American Indian and Catholic traditions contribute to the feast of San Juan Neponuceno, the East Mountains village's patron saint.
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  • Spirit Protection | Chilili, 2007
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  • As the luminarias continue to burn, Robert Garcia cruises up and down Highway 337 in Chilili driving his yellow 1957 Chevy truck just after sunset...
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  • Dominick Gutierrez, 19, waits after getting makeup applied to his face in the side room of the Chilili church. Gutierrez was waiting to perform with the Matachines as La Pirojundia, a clown-like character dressed as a woman.
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  • Isabela Lucero, 10, La Malinche for this year's festival, leads the dance as the community processes down N.M. 337, the only road through town. "The Malinche is very, very special. She is dressed in white, pure white. That (symbolizes) she is a virgin and she is getting ready to receive her communion," said town elder Ernest Gutierrez.
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  • A statue of San Juan Neponuceno sits in a sunny afternoon window of the adobe walls inside the community church, which was built in the 1700s. San Juan Neponuceno is the patron saint of the community.
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