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adobe making and barbering, (b) fish-net making, Ladinos) the 75 cents a day that a good carpenter- 

 baking, running a canoe business, and playing the cabinetmaker does. The local Indian who is a 

 marimba, and (c) decorative weaving and cur- part-time mason-carpenter devotes most of his 

 ing childi'en's ailments. time to his land. 



Since most Indians make their own adobes, 

 Table 23.— Persons with special occupations the part-time adobe maker works almost exclu- 



sively for Ladinos. Like masons and carpenters, 

 adobe makers hire laborers out of a contract 

 price, generally $1.50 per hundred adobes. When 

 largo constructions are undertaken the Ladino 

 contractors usuallj' unport adobe makers. The 

 adobe maker learned the barbering trade while in 

 military service; tourists in later years kept him 

 very busy and prosperous, but in 193G his cus- 

 tomers were few. Indians come to his house on 

 appointment for a 5-cont haircut; for whatever he 

 can get he goes to the homes of rich foreigners. 



Only one Indian beef butcher (from Atitlan) 

 followed the trade in 1936. The following year a 

 second Atiteco opened shop. However, a local 

 Indian owns to the trade. Before the depres- 

 sion of the thirties cut down extravagances, he 

 was called to butcher steers for private and 

 cojradia Indian fiestas. The one Indian butcher 

 competed in 1936 with a local Ladino as well as 

 with butchers in Solola; he usually killed but one 

 animal a week, which he traveled to the coast to 



' In each fraction, the numerator indicates the number of persons practicing , i ■ i i i i i i • i i 



the occupation, and the denominator the total number of special occupations DUy, whlch he slaughtered and butchcred With the 



he practices. The total of the column is the arithmetic sum of the fractions. • ,' , • ^ • i • i i- i • i 



> Indian native of some other town. aid of a part-time (paid) assistant and of which, 



9 Female: all not marked are males (except in "total" column where sex -iiii ci-'i-i 



Is not indicated). With tho help of his Wife, he processcd and sold 



. the meat, tallow, and hides. After 1936 the shop 



_ It wdl be noted that merchants are not mcluded prospered, and the butcher took larger quarters 



m this list. It wiU also be seen that some of the ^^^ ^^^^^ ^ full-time assistant, 



practitioners (notably curers) are not profes- q^ ^^^ ^j^^.^^ part-time pork butchers in the 



sionals m the sense that they are paid; they are community in 1936, only one-an Indian from 



mcluded for completeness and because they are MLxco-practiced his trade. The other two, both 



sometimes given gifts for then- favors. j^^^j j^^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^ 1^^.^^ landowner), knew how 



ARTISANS AND MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS *''. butcher, but in 1936 killed no pigs. The 



Mixquefio only occasionally bought pigs for 



The two full-time masons, Totonicapenos who slaughter, and processed them and sold the meat, 



moved to Panajachel evidently for the purpose, lard, and cracklings. 



work almost exclusively on Ladino and municipal The baker learned his trade from a Ladino, but 



jobs, either by the day or more usually on contract. he bakes only for Easter week when there are 



Neither has any other local source of income and special demands for bread. Then he is at his 



both work steadily, earning about 50 cents a day. oven day and night, making "bread" (we would 



On contract they must take into account idleness call it coffee cake) of materials (including firewood) 



because of weather or shortage of materials or furnished by tho customers. The same man 



lielp. learned to make fish nets from a local Ladino. 



The carpenter wathout other specialty in 1936, He probably makes a net every 2 years or so, 

 a Pedrano who also rented land for cultivation, chiefly for his own use, of cotton thread and lead- 

 was too poor a craftsman to earn (chiefly from weights which he buys. (In 1937 he was a sac- 



