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Voladores Dance, Gallup, New Mexico, 1979

The Voladores de Papantla perform their high-flying dance at the Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial, a gathering that brings tribesmen from all over North America to Gallup, New Mexico, in late July to perform and to display their handicrafts.

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, the National Geographic book, The Great Southwest, 1980)

Photograph by George F. Mobley

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