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INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY — ^PUBLICATION NO. 1 1 



Plate 11 



o, In the center is a house group belonging to a family in 

 the Rancho de Icudcato. Both houses have walls of 

 stone, logs, and poles, and the roofs are thatched with 

 local grasses. To the right of the houses are the 

 remains of a small corral for burros. This type of 

 house is typical of the poorer families in the ranchos. 



6, One large patriarchal family inhabits this house group 

 in the Rancho de la Tirfmicua. This type of nearly 

 square and basically wooden house is known as a 

 troje, although the tile roofs are replaced by shakes in 

 true trojes. The second house from the right has the 

 hewn planks of a true troje, while the others are a 

 composite of partly shaped logs, barked logs, adobes, 

 etc. The corncobs heaped in front are used as fuel. 



c, This second house group in La Tirfmicua displays a 

 common diversity in materials and form. The house 

 on the left has a thatched roof of four slopes and 

 that on the right has but two aguas. The walls are 

 a combination of dry stones, stones in adobe, logs, 

 poles, and planks. The cloth and poles in the right 

 foreground are protecting a chayote. 



Plate 12 



a, This jacal or barn near the Rancho de Atzimbo illus- 



trates the structures built on a few of the larger farms. 

 The open-work arrangement of the adobes should be 

 noted. 



b, A fairly typical patio or open backyard on the periphery 



of Quiroga in the Barrio del Calvario. In the fore- 

 ground a hen and some chickens are foraging; on the 

 far side of the patio some baleas with freshly applied 

 maque are drying in the sun; and a woman is examining 

 the hair and scalp of a youngster for lice. The houses 

 shown belong to three related families. 



c, A porldn with tile roof, adobe pillars, and double 



swinging gate at the entrance to a maize field in La 

 Tirimicua. At the left is part of a large yucca just 

 beginning to flower. This is an unusually well- 

 built -portdn for the ranchos and is more like the type 

 encountered in town. 



d, This portdn of timbers with a shake roof, and with a 



single puerla de golpe, in Sanambo is of the type most 

 common in the ranchos. The walls or fences of 

 crudely piled dry stones are typical, 



Plate 13 



o, The eastern, or Pueblo Nuevo, district of Quiroga viewed 

 from the bell tower of the parish church. The 

 municipal cemetery, marked by a large white gateway 

 at the juncture of two walls, is in the middle back- 

 ground. The L-shaped building with a white tower 

 at one end is the chapel of San Vicente and asso- 

 ciated structures. Several walled patios with fruit 

 and ornamental trees can be seen. 



h, The unpaved extension of Calle Salazar eastward 

 toward an arroyo which flows into the Arroyo del 

 Pueblo Nuevo. Five families inhabit the three 

 structures shown. The adobe wall is topped with 



growing grass, which is a rather common topping. 

 In the previous picture most of the adobe walls are 

 protected by tiles. In other cases pitahaj'a cactus 

 is planted on the walls, and the cactus both protects 

 the wall against erosion and discourages over-the-wall 

 visitors. 



Plate 14 



a, The ornate front of this house is characteristic of the 

 homes of some of the wealthier merchants and land- 

 owners. The windows are of wood, with iron grills 

 or rejas in the lower portions. The sidewalk is of 

 large bricks. It will be noted that the house number 

 has been changed from 14 to 24 (on the Calle Iturbide). 

 The large doorway is the entrance to a zagudn, or 

 hall, and the large door contains a smaller door which 

 is the one most commonly used. 



h, The large building marked Hotel, in three places, is on 

 the corner of Benito Judrez (upon which it fronts) and 

 Guerrero. It is most commonly known as the Posada 

 Escobedo, and the swinging sign above the front 

 entrance, or zagudn, carried this name until it was shot 

 up by some "drunks" during our stay in Quiroga. 

 This building in the previous century was the home of 

 one of the wealthiest men in Quiroga, and was the 

 finest private home in town. Now it contains, in 

 addition to the hotel rooms on the upper floor, a 

 small store on the corner, a shoemaker's establish- 

 ment in the room just to the left of the hotel entrance, 

 a butchershop where the flag is displayed, and a 

 fonda (restaurant, cafe) in a room entered by the 

 last two doors. Whenever fresh meat is available a 

 red flag is displayed in front of a butchershop. A 

 favored location for stores is on comers where the one 

 room of the store is entered by two, three, or four 

 closely spaced doors. 



Plate 15 



a, Interior patio in the Posada Escobedo. This patio is 



practically in the same condition as when the building 

 was a private home, and serves to illustrate what lies 

 behind a number of the unprepossessing house fronts. 

 There are a number of patios in Quiroga which are 

 richer in potted flowers and ornamental shrubs. 

 However, the frogs decorating the center of the pila 

 are unique in Quiroga. Most of the potted plants 

 visible are pelargoniums and begonias. 



b. This corner is at the intersection of Benito Judrez and 



Guerrero on the south side of Benito Juarez. As the 

 sign indicates, this structure is in the first block 

 {manzana 1 ') of the first quarter (cuartel I ») of town, 

 and the street that goes by is the Avenida B. Judrez. 

 The store which occupies the corner room has the 

 address of (Judrez) 8. The signs are typical, espe- 

 cially those of the painkiller Mejoral and of Cumbres 

 cigarettes. The lower sign advertises a soccer 

 (Fut-Bol) game between the Nevado team of 

 Pdtzcuaro and the local Vasco de Quiroga team. 

 The recently laid asphalt sidewalk is in visibly poor 

 condition. 



