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Like the Huichol, most of the tribe Hve during a large part of the 

 year in isolated rancherias. After a harvest is completed, and during 

 fiestas at other times in the year, the families congregate in villages, 

 the chief of which are lauchke, or Nayar, on the famous Mesa de 

 Tonate, Chusite, or Jesus Maria, on a portion of the western border of 

 the river of the same name, and Kwaimaluse, or Santa Teresa, on the 

 highland in the northwestern part of the Cora country. Lesser vil- 

 lages are Washihap, or Dolores, Wainamota, Wazamota (formerly 

 Tepehuane, at present probably a mixed population), Kwarata, or 

 San Francisco, and Diskatan. The people are physically allied to 

 the Huichol, Tepecano, Tepehuane, the Meccos, Mayo, Opata, a 

 Papago element, and the Yuma-Mohave. 



The Tarasco, who live in Michoacan, are a large tribe, in many lo- 

 calities still of pure blood , in others mixed. Their principal settlements 

 lie south and east of Zamora and around Lake Patzcuaro. The writer's 

 investigations were conducted mainly in the large village of Tarequato. 

 Physically the Tarasco are closely allied to the Tarahumare in the 

 north, and to the Aztec and Otomi peoples in the south. 



The Otomi are a very large tribe, but although still occupying a 

 nearly continuous territory, have long since ceased to form a unit. 

 Many of the Otomi are still full-bloods and speak their own language, 

 but pohtical cohesion extends only a short distance beyond the villages. 

 In numerous localities there is considerable mixture with Mexicans. 

 The general social status of the people, especially where mixture pre- 

 vails, is of the lowest. The Otomi are settled in the somewhat moun- 

 tainofts region extending northeast, north, and northwest to west 

 from the City of Mexico, over part of the Federal District, and parts 

 orthe states of Puebla," Hidalgo,'' Queretaro,'^ and Mexico,'' a region 

 covering approximately 10,000 square miles. ^ In the state of Mexico 

 the Otomi live in close proximity to the distantly related Mazahua, 

 but the two tribes mingle but little. 



The Mazahua, a smaller but generally better preserved tribe than 

 the Otomi, live chiefly in a number of villages / in the district of 

 Ixtlahuaca, state of Mexico. According to all that could be learned 

 of this people, through both inquiry and anthropometric examina- 

 tion, the Mazahua are distinct from the Otomi, although both show 

 blood relationship due to intermixture. They are more closely related 

 to the Tarasco. 



a Along the northern boundary to beyond Pahuatlan. 



ti Especially in the districts of Fajayucan, Ixmiquilpan, Octopan, Tula and others. 



c District of San Juan del Rio. 



d Districts from Lerma to San Felipe (along the Mexican National railway), and northward. 



( The greater portion of this, however, belongs to the whites. 



/San Bartolo, San Pedro de los Banos, San Juan de los Jares, San Francisco, Santiago Cuisilapa (or 

 Xilapa), Los Reyes, Xocotitla, San Antonio, Santo Domingo, Concepcion de los Bancs, Totonilco, 

 Tlacomulco, San Lorenzo, Santa Cruz, and others. 



