Eduviges's Inn

Eduviges Dyada, Fulgor Sedano, Tilcuate Damasio

Color palette of Eduviges: shades of wine, ocher and sand tones

Color palette of Fulgor: shades of green

The inn, which also serves as a saloon and perhaps an occasional brothel, is where patrons of every social class come not only to get drunk but also to spill secrets across the table—secrets that Eduviges keeps under lock and key. The novel also suggests that she was a victim of abuse by many of them.

Eduviges Dyada's color palette, her shades of wine, reflects her welcoming yet enigmatic personality. Here she wears a hand-pleated blouse and a period apron, very wide and long, also made from fabric woven on a colonial loom.

Fulgor Sedano is the foreman of La Media Luna, the landowner's right hand, tasked with carrying out orders always tied to his patron's insatiable thirst for power—including murder. Fulgor's suit fuses two ways of dressing: that of power and that of the common people. He wears a suede jacket and felt hat like his patron, but his pants are not leather, they're wool woven on a loom. The cachiruleado, the strip of hand-cut designs adorning the sides of the pants, follows the patterns of the era.

Tilcuate Damasio embodies corruption: he keeps in check anyone who dares to rebel against the boss. He dresses like the peasants: a wool overcoat woven on a colonial loom, cotton muslin pants, and leather sandals.

The bar Eduviges tends is filled with period pottery. A beautiful wooden barrel painted blue stands out, featuring a medallion depicting a peasant extracting aguamiel (fermented sap) from a maguey with his acocote (a gourd bottle). And on one wall, the inevitable image of the Virgin of Guadalupe.