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d, This display of painted pottery is outside of one of the 

 leading curio stores in Quiroga. Most of the items 

 were made in neighboring Santa Fe although some 

 of the Santa Fe pottery is painted in Quiroga. 



Plate 24 



a, Chamaco-size chairs, with the wooden parts painted 

 red, drying in the sun in front of a paintshop (Taller 

 de pintura) on Calle Salazar. The house front and 

 street are quite typical of the older portions of down- 

 town Quiroga (El Centro). The joining line and the 

 change in roof structure indicate that parts of two 

 houses are shown. 



6, Three women decorating chairs. The location in a 

 corridor or veranda on one side of a patio is charac- 

 teristic. The pots or macetas holding the pelar- 

 goniums are somewhat larger and better than the 

 average. 



Plate 25 



a, Jos6 Corona Nuiiez (left) and the postmaster Don Jos6 



Medina Gaona (right) seated in costurera chairs and 

 holding juguele chairs. The two chairs in front are 

 chiquito de nino in size, and back of these are two 

 chamaco chairs. 



b, From left to right the chair sizes are juguele, chiquilo de 



nino, chamaco, and costurera. 



c, Juguele chairs, some painted red and others blue, dry- 



ing in the sun. After the background paint is dry 

 the chairs are decorated. 



d, Mesera tosca chairs, painted black, drying on the side- 



walk in front of a paintshop. 



Plate 26 



a. The tule mat or pelate section in a Sunday market. 



The pelaleros are lined up along a wall of the parish 

 house or curato which forms one side of the Plaza de 

 los Mdrtires. Most of the petale sellers are from 

 nearby lake villages. The trees are privets. 



b, Part of the vegetable section in the Sunday market. 



A butchershop and a private home are in the back- 

 ground. The two women selling vegetables are from 

 Santa Fe. The vegetables displayed are turnips, 

 tomatoes, onions, cabbage, lettuce, carrots, and beets. 

 The woman at the left front is a purer Indian type 

 than the other. The partial curtains in the two 

 windows are of the type ordinarily found in houses 

 having glass windows. 



Plate 27 



a, Dried chiles, tunas, tomatoes, and other vegetables 



displayed on peiates in the market. The costumes 

 are typical excepting those of the man and boy at 

 the upper right (a municipal employee and his son) 



b, Most of the pottery displayed in the Quiroga market 



comes from Tzintzuntzan and Santa Fe. The woman 

 in the left foreground wears characteristic mestizo 

 costume of rebozo, calico print dress, dark cotton 



stockings, and shoes, while the next woman to the 

 right is typically Indian in dress from bare feet to the 

 type of rebozo worn. 



Plate 28 



a, Campesinos contemplating the baked agave {mescal) 



resources of the market. Two of the baked "cab- 

 bages" are visible between the second and third man 

 from the right. The fourth man is holding a morral. 

 The first three men on the right probably have on their 

 "Sunday-best" clothes. 



b. An Indian woman with mescal for sale from the Tzin- 



tzuntzan area. Note the manner of carrying a child 

 on the back, within the rebozo. The man at the left 

 is the owner of one of the pool halls, and is a good 

 representative of the merchant class. 



Plate 29 



a. The one gasoline station in Quiroga is situated in a 

 corner of the Portal Matamoros. A freight truck 

 (camidn de carga) is parked by the gasoline pump. 

 The lettering at the top of the cut advertises Mexo- 

 lube, a lubricating oil produced by Pemex (the 

 Government petroleum corporation). In the left 

 background is the Portal Hidalgo and part of the 

 Plaza Principal. The hour is shortly after sunrise on 

 a winter morning, and there is a "nip" in the air. 

 The water carrier is swathed in a store blanket, and 

 the campesino with whom he is conversing has a locally 

 made cobija. The man at the right is a transient 

 dressed in "city clothes" (catrin). He and the girl 

 (dressed in print dress, rebozo, and high-heeled shoes) 

 are waiting for a bus to Morelia. 



6, The horse has brought part of an ox, just butchered in 

 the abaslo several blocks down the street, for delivery 

 to a nearby butchershop. 



Plate 30 



a. This oxcart is of a modern type. The old-fashioned 



solid-wheeled carts apparently no longer exist in the 

 area. 



b, While the bus is stopped and new passengers are seeking 



admittance other passengers get out to buy a snack — 

 tacos, tamales, etc. This is a second-class bus on the 

 Mexico City to Guadalajara route, and originates in 

 Jalisco, as indicated by the name "Zapotlanejo." 



Plate 31 



a. The rural Federalized school "Redenci6n" is really a 



suburban school in the Barrio del Calvario. The 

 pupils are children of the local ejidatarios. This 

 school occupies the renovated chapel of San Miguel 

 which was constructed in 1850. 



b, The downtown or urban school (Federal primary school 



"Miguel Hidalgo") occupies rented quarters on the 

 Calzada Ram6n Corona a half block from the Plaza 

 Principal. Note the changes in the house number. 

 The sidewalk is of brick. 



