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maize was local and how much bought at Santiago for 
resale, I could not determine. One Friday in April 
1932, I saw a dozen Pedranos selling maize in the 
Solola market. They also buy maize, however, at 
Santiago, mainly when their supply runs low, just 
preceding the harvest at San Pedro. Their lean 
months are from August to November, during which 
time, while I was there in 1936, they were coming to 
Santiago at the rate of from 50 to 75 a week, and 
though some sold black beans and a few ropes, their 
main interest, as in the case of all the west Lake 
villagers, seemed to be in buying corn. I was told 
that the Pedranos resold much of it at a profit (price 
increased from 1 cent per pound to 1% cents). 
Canoes are made at San Pedro, though not on a 
scale comparable with Santiago’s production; they 
have a good soap industry, based upon fat from pigs 
of Lowland Cutzan (there were four or five San 
Pedro soap vendors every Friday in the Solola 
market during the summer of 1936) and their income 
is augmented handsomely from March to May, par- 
ticularly during Lent, when far and wide they market 
their chickpeas, in which they have long specialized.1® 
I have seen them in Retalhuleu (two men with six 
mules on one occasion), in Quezaltenango (nine men 
one day), in Totonicapan and other equally distant 
plazas, their product much in demand for making 
dulces (especially jelly and preserves). They are 
widely noted also for their black beans 1° which, to- 
gether with a few avocadoes, they sell in quantity 
along the piedmont. Pedranos burn castor oil on the 
altar. The castor plant, which is widely found as a 
weed in Guatemala, is especially abundant at San 
Pedro, where it is sometimes planted. 
Two other minor money crops are tomatoes, 
watered with jars carried from the Lake (I have seen 
San Pedro tomatoes sold in Solola and as far away 
as Quezaltenango), and peanuts, selling in quantity 
in Santiago, October 1936. The latter crop was said 
to be an innovation, started in 1926. The Pedranos 
are credited with introducing the jaspe (tie-dye) 
style among the Lake villages, men of San Juan tak- 
ing it up (in trousers), and, to a lesser extent, San 
Pablo also. Weaving “jaspeado” cloth for sale to 
Indians and tourists is a profitable occupation among 
the women. They even weave Santiago costume 
1@ “Produces . . . the best chickpeas of the Kingdom in the town 
of la Laguna and its dependencies ...’? (Anon., Ms. 1778, p. 16, 
ae 
368 The fame of Lake beans is traditional. Vazquez (1937-38, p. 
172) mentions sale of them in many markets, especially on the coast, 
“provincia de Suchitepeques.” 
EXPLANATION OF SYMBOLS FOR SOLOLA FRIDAY MARKET DIAGRAM 
(MAP 22) 
Probable average numeri- 
Proventence of vendors eee etna market 
Fargueta. . . - «© «+ »& 100-125 
A Atitlan (Santiago) . . - + 10-25 
® Cerro de Oro. Under 10 
C Chichicastenango (Sento Tomas) . . 200-250 
N Nahuala. © 5 =) 2 as 10-25 
P Panajachel . . -© «© «© + 50-100 
QQuezaltenango . - + + © Under 10 
+ Sacepulas. . : P »  ~ +s gundertio 
V San Andrés Semetabaj. . - - 10-25 
(CO San Antonio Palopo . . 10-25 
©) San Francisco el Alto . . Under 10 
< San Jorge ; : . - ° . 50-100 
(San Marcos la Leguna . . - Under 10) 
® San Pablo la Laguna . . Z . Under 10 
QZ San Pedro lalaguna. . - - Under 10 
{) Santa Caterina Palopo . . - 10-25 
(Santa Clara la Laguna . . . . Under 10) 
M Sante chudine Peanune) £0-100 
© Santa Luofa Utatlan. . - ~- ~~ 50-100 
(Santa Merf{a Chiquimla. . . . Under 10) 
S sorta . . « - + + 6 « 3004350 
San José Chacaya. -. - ~ «+ 100-125 
Concepcion . - - + «+ ~ 100-125 
T Totonicapan. . . . « = « 10-26 
Note: The total number of vendors was approximately 1,325 (about 
1,000 from other municipios and 325 local). The numbers given in 
the tabulation are higher than those on the actual diagram, which 
required 3 hours to make, during the peak of the market (10:30 a. m.- 
1:30 p. m.); during this interval some new vendors came and some 
left (usually beginning 1 p. m.). A square drawn around a letter 
means vendor is under canvas shelter. Towns in parentheses not 
represented on this Friday; occasional. ‘‘w’ by a symbol indicates 
vendor is a woman. Always read facing vendors. Read ‘‘maize” for 
“corn,” “rush”? for “reed,” and “limas’’ (sweet limes) for “‘limes.” 
material and sell it to Atitecos in the Santiago market. 
This particular type of enterprise is probably unique 
in Guatemala. 
Pedranos often take their goods to markets on 
mules, of which they have several hundred in the 
municipio. Ropemaking to the Pedranos is but one 
of a number of diversified economic pursuits, and is 
engaged in probably only because of the unusually 
fine agave which is readily available. To the Pable- 
fios, on the other hand, with so little opportunity in 
agriculture or industry, this craft is important enough 
for them to go to San Pedro and buy agave leaves. 
In the Solola and Santiago markets there are almost 
