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Table 17. 



-Number of vendors in Pdtzcuaro 

 market — Continued 



pesos. The number of buyers again poses a 

 difficult problem. A conservative guess would 

 be that five or six thousand persons buy at some- 

 time during the day; the figure could be much 

 greater. 



It would be very difficult to formulate a com- 

 plete list of places from which come products 

 sold in the Patzcuaro market. It would be even 

 more difficult to determine in which cases sellers 

 have come from these towns, and in which cases 

 the products have been brought by means of 

 middlemen. On a number of different market 

 days sellers were asked the source of their pro- 

 ducts. The combined data give the following 

 list. Items mentioned in table 18 not listed here 

 are for the most part from the "local" area, i.e., 

 the south shore of Lake Patzcuaro and other 

 neighboring hamlets and ranches. Apples, Pi- 

 chataro; bananas. La Huacana, Tacambaro; 

 baskets of willow, San Juan del Rio, Qro.; 

 bread, Patzcuaro, San Bartolo; brown sugar 

 {piloncillo), Nuevo Urecho, Tacambaro; canta- 

 loup, Corraleo; cooked pork (carnitas), Quiro- 

 ga; charcoal and firewood, Casas Blancas, Santa 

 Juana, Opopeo; cheese, Rio Grande (near 

 Ario), La Huacana, San Pedro Jorullo; chile 

 giiero, Erongaricuaro; chile verde, Nuevo Ure- 

 cho, Tacambaro; coconuts. La Huacana; copper 

 vessels, Santa Clara; fish and ducks, Tarascan 



lake villages; glaze, Monterrey; grapes, Guada- 

 lajara, guavas, Tacambaro; hats, Jaracuaro, Sa- 

 huayo, Turicuaro, San Francisco, Gto.; hides, 

 San Pedro Jorullo; huaraches, Patzcuaro, Ta- 

 cambaro; huicumo (fruit), Tareta; jerked beef 

 (cecina). tierra caliente; jicama (tuber). State 

 of Guanajuato; limes, Apatzingan, La Huaca- 

 na; lime, Itucuaro; mangoes, Tareta, La Hua- 

 cana, Nuevo Urecho, Tacambaro; metates, Cua- 

 najo, Patambicho, San Luis Obispo; mushrooms, 

 Patzcuaro; nanche (fruit), Tareta; ocote, Eron- 

 garicuaro; palm raincoats (capotes), Piumo, 

 Acuitzio, Turicuaro, Patzcuaro; palm rope (pi- 

 mo), La Huacana, La Playa; papayas. La Hua- 

 cana; petates and fire fans, Tarascan lake vil- 

 lages; pineapple. State of Veracruz; plums, San 

 Juan Tumbia; pottery, Tzintzuntzan, Santa Fe, 

 Capula, Dolores Hidalgo, Gto.; rebozos, Para- 

 cho, Patzcuaro, Capacuaro, Tenancingo, Mex. ; 

 rice, Lombardia, Tareta, Nuevo Urecho; root 

 brushes, Patzcuaro; salt, Colima, Col.; scrapes, 

 Patzcuaro, Nahuatzen, Silao, Gto.; sugar. Ha- 

 cienda de Cabulote, Hacienda Pedernales; ta- 

 marind. La Huacana, Nuevo Urecho: water mel- 

 on, La Huacana, San Pedro Jorullo; wooden 

 objects (spoons, chocolate beaters, tops, chests, 

 and so forth), Paracho, Cuanajo, Zirahuen; 

 wooden trays, Turicuaro, Quiroga, Tacambaro; 

 wool cloth, Tulancingo, Hdo.; zapote prieto 

 (fruit), Nuevo Urecho. 



Important seasonal changes were noted 

 throughout 1945 and part of 1946. The first 

 pineapple appeared May 18, when two freight- 

 car loads from Veracruz were piled high in the 

 streets. Mangoes first appeared in April, and 

 white zapotes in May. Capulines and blackber- 

 ries were new at the May 18 market, and pea- 

 nuts, plentiful all through the spring, had about 

 disappeared, as had jerked beef, mameys, and 

 cherimoyas. Tlie market of June 18, 1945, was 

 noteworthy for the great quantities of fine man- 

 goes, the first plums, and the first prized prisco 

 peaches. Great quantities of cantaloups and hon- 

 eydew melons appeared for a short season, and 

 cucumbers were very much in evidence. They 

 are a great delicacy, sliced, salted, and sold as 

 a between-meals snack. By this date most pine- 

 apples, alligator pears, and capulines were gone. 

 Ducks had entirely disappeared, and very few 

 fish were to be found. 



In August great quantities of green corn, new 

 squash, and other garden vegetables appeared. 



