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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



THE CLIFF-DWELLER'S SANDAL. 



A STUDY IN COMPARATIVE TECHNOLOGY. 



By OTIS T. MASON. 



ONE of the commonest elements in any picture of modern 

 Latin America is the cargador, or porter. Upon his back 

 may be seen water, merchandise of every sort, in curious recep- 

 tacles, supported and held in place by a strap across his forehead 



or across his breast. His 

 dress also is the quaintest 

 mixture, partly old, part- 

 ly new, of the primitive 

 aboriginal and of the later 

 European cut and stuffs. 

 But at present we are 

 concerned with his feet 

 and their gear. Under- 

 neath is a sole of hide, 

 harness leather or sole 

 leather as the case may 

 be, cut in the form of the 

 foot and having a hole 

 through the front and 

 gashes through the mar- 

 gin just beneath the 

 ankle. About the foot is 

 the lacing, consisting of 

 a narrow strap knotted 

 at one end, drawn up 

 through the hole in front 

 between the first and the 

 second toe, then carried 

 over the back of the foot 

 through a side gash, 

 where it makes a half 



Chasque Kunneb between Chililaya and Pdno, 

 Peru, wearinr Single Toe String. (Wiener, 

 Perou ei Holivie, Paris, 1880, p. 593.) 



hitch, then backward 

 over the heel to the oth- 

 er gash, making another 

 half hitch, thence over the instep, where it is tied into itself to 

 complete the round. There is another style in which the toe 

 string is omitted, a cross lacing over the top of the foot and above 

 the heel like that on a west coast baby frame, holding the sole to 

 the foot. There are many varieties of these types, as may be 

 seen in Wiener's Perou et Bolivie, pages 676-681. 



