Monitos: Portrait of an Artisan Family

Duration: 396 ft.

Year Published: 1974

Creator: Perez (Severo & Judith Ann)

Copyright: Registered 5Jun74 · MP26136 (Jan-Jun 1975) Copyright holder: Severo Perez

Complete Record: Portrays a typical summertime day in the life of the Garcia Aguilar family, who live in a small Mexican village in Oaxaca. Shows the family farming and doing household chores and the making of the Monitos people, small clay figures that have brought the mother fame in the world of popular folk art. Points out the important role of the market in rural Mexican life.