Smithsonian Report, 1963. — Crist 



Plate 6 



1. In the Western Cordillera, west nf Popa\an Cnlombia, a rancher has grubstaked land- 

 less laborers to clear the forest, with the first crop of corn as their payment; then they 

 plant the cleared land to grass, turn it over to the landlord, and clear more forest land. 

 The white, black-eared cattle grazing in the foreground are a hardy triple-purpose (used 

 as work animals, as well as for meat and milk) breed that seems to have evolved in 

 Antioquia. 



2. A settler on the banks of the Meta River, who fled the poverty and political violence 

 endemic to his mountain province of Huila. His wife and daughter and the Indian girl, 

 to the right, help him to grown corn, beans, yuca, and squash on the natural levee of the 

 river. It is a hand-to-mouth existence now, but Mr. R. looks forward to the time when 

 he can produce a surplus — corn, cooking bananas, a fattened hog perhaps — that will tie 

 him to the market at Puerto Lopez. 



