follows: the shape may be cylindrical or cubical and it 
may have a roof which rests upon it or upon independent 
supports, but in any event, it consists of thick wattle and 
daub walls, floor and top so that it forms a perfectly 
sealed unit; the body of the granary is raised some dis- 
tance from the ground level; the shelled maize is poured 
in through a small door cut through the top wall and 
sealed in after all of the harvest has been stored; removal 
is made periodically through a small hole close to the 
base of the structure and, after each withdrawal, this 
aperture is sealed in once more with daub. 
10. Cylindrical, wattle and daub open granary. This 
simpler type of structure is found distributed along the 
northern limits of Guerrero, in the Mixtec area of east- 
ern Guerrero (Schultze Jena 1988), the northwest region 
of Oaxaca (I. Kelly, in correspondence), and the south- 
western part of Puebla. Throughout this area it is des- 
ignated as cuescumal, cuescomate and coscomate. 
11. Tropical crib. The use of the tropical maize crib, 
shown in Pl. XVIII, B, C, predominates throughout 
most of the moist tropical areas of southern Veracruz, 
Tabasco, northern and southern Chiapas, Campeche, 
Yucatan, Quintana Roo and eastern Oaxaca. This struc- 
ture has been amply described in its modern form by 
Lundell (1933), Wauchope (1988), Perez Toro (1942) 
and Morley (1946), from the Mayan area of the Yucatan 
Peninsula. E. Matuda (in correspondence) reports its use 
in southern Chiapas. I. Kelly (in correspondence) finds 
it aberrant among the Totonacs of northern Veracruz, 
while the author has seen it widely used in ‘Tabasco and 
in the Chimalapa region of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, 
Oaxaca. 
This granary may be built within the yard of the house 
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