ILLUSTRATIONS 



PLATES 



(All plates at end of book) 



1. Cheran landscapes and methods of carrying objects. 



2. Women, carrying methods, and hair grooming. 



3. Cheran aqueducts, board sawing, shake splitting, 



and wheat winnowing." 



4. Plowing, ditches to protect fields, log hewing, and 



Cheran plaza during fiesta. 



5. Market and bull fighting during festival. 



6. Castillo, pastorela, negrito dancers, and wedding. 



7. Roofing fiesta and wedding. 



8. Specimens of maize ears. 



.FIGURES 



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1. Woodworking implements 16 



2. Turpentine still 18 



3. The Cheran plow 22 



4. Pear picker . 28 



5. Tilemaker's implements 34 



6. Spinning wheel and associated implements... 30 



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7. Belt loom 37 



8. Women's dress 40 



9. Lathe 43 



10. Rope-twisting device 45 



11. Market at Chilchota 84 



12. Cheran kinship 99 



13. Cheran kinship 100 



14. Cheran kinship 101 



15. Cheran kinship 101 



16. Negrito dance figure 145 



17. Dance of the Europeos _._ 150 



18. A Cheran wedding 184 



19. Characteristics of Cheran maize 222 



MAPS 



1. Modern Tarascan territory 6 



2. Cheran lands 8 



3. The municipio of Cheran 9 



4. The town of Cheran, house types and 



specialists 10 



5. The town of Cheran (street map) 11 



VII 



