THE TAJIN TOTONAC PART 1 KELLY AND PALERM 



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The northern frontier continues to present diffi- 

 culties, which are more apparent than real. It will 

 be remembered that sixteenth-century data are 

 deficient and there are no early records of Totonac 

 speech north of Papantla. However, we postu- 

 lated (p. 5) a former extension to the Rio Ca- 

 zones, and thence to Huitzila. It would appear 

 from map 3 that the modern boundary runs even 



farther north. Actually, only two municipalities 

 are involved, Ixhuatlan and Tihuatlan. In these, 

 Totonac speech is by no means general. In Ixhua- 

 tlan, all occurrences fall within the old Huitzila- 

 Cazones frontier ; and only in Tihuatlan a few set- 

 tlements spill over the old hypothetical boundary. 

 In short, despite the map, modern and ancient 

 limits coincide pretty closely. 



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Map 3. — Sixteenth-century and modern Totonacapan compared. 



The over-all limits of sixteenth-century Totonacapan have been taken from map 1 , by connecting with a line the 

 outermost pueblos of Totonac speech. 



Modern boundaries are based on map 2 and give distribution by municipal unit, not by individual pueblo. In some 

 cases, this results in an impression of greater extension than actually is the case, since — particularly in peripheral zones — 

 Totonac is confined to one or two settlements and is not generally distributed throughout the municipal unit. 



