Casimiro Perlaza Mena
Casimiro Perlaza Mena
Photo by Michelle Arbeit, Smithsonian Institution
Casimiro Perlaza demuestra cómo trabaja la madera.
Foto de Cristina Díaz-Carrera, Smithsonian Institution
Casimiro Perlaza Mena
Photo courtesy of Embassy of Colombia in Washington, D.C.
Casimiro Perlaza is a carpenter who works with a wide variety of wood found in the Pacific rainforest. He builds wooden pans for gold panning and rayos, the traditional washboards used by women for washing clothes in the river.
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