THE TAJIN TOTONAC PART 1 KELLY AND PALERM 



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Table 6. — Provenience of Tajin population 1 



Provenience 



Heads of 



families 



and their 



wives 



Parents 

 and grand- 

 parents of 

 preceding 

 group 



Lowlands: Papantla and surrounding zones 

 (Veracruz) 

 Cazones: 







1 

 3 

 3 

 3 

 



1 

 









 

 





 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 

 2 

 

 1 

 

 

 1 

 2 

 3 

 1 

 29 

 10 



8 

 8 

 

 5 

 1 

 

 2 

 250 

 5 

 2 

 7 





 1 











1 

 1 





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 



1 



Coatzintla: 



Coatzintla 



10 



Contreras (formerly San Martin) 



15 



Escolfn de Coatzintla 



2 



Poza de Cuero 



7 





1 



Coxquihui: 



Coxquihui 



1 



Sabaneta 



2 



Coyutla: 



Coyutla 



1 



Espinal: 



Entabladero 



1 



Espinal 



2 



Paclfico 



1 



Papantla: 



AguaDulee.. 



6 



Aguacate (near Tecolutla) 



3 



Arroyo Colorado,-. 



1 



Arroyo Grande 



1 



B"ra dP T.ima 



1 



Carrizal 



1 



Cazuelas.. 



1 



Cedro, EI 



6 



Cerro de! Carbon 



1 



Cerro Grande 



1 



Chote, El 







Escolln de Papantla 







Gildardo Mufloz 







Mesillas 



3 



Mozutla y Pital 



4 



Ojital 



60 



Papantla.. 



22 



Plan de Hidalgo (formerly San Miguel el 

 Grande) 



22 



Polutla 



9 



Poza Larga 



2 



San Antonio 



4 



San Lorenzo 







San Pablo 



1 



Santa Agueda 



2 



Tajin 



225 



Talaxca 



20 



Taracuan 







TIahuanapa 



25 



Papantla or Coatzintla: 



Cbote, EI (which one not specified) 



1 



Escolln (which one not specified) 



2 



Intermediate zone, between lowlands and 

 highlands 



Filomeno Mata (Veracruz): 



Filomeno Mata (formerly Santo Domingo) 



Hueytlalpan (Puebla): 



Zitlala 



2 

 2 



Jopala (Pueblal: 



Chicontla ... 



2 



Highlands, Sierra de Puebla 

 Ahuacntlan (Puebla): 



San Andres [Tlayehualancingo] 



2 



San Juan Ahuacatlan 



1 



Tetela (Puebla): 



Tetela 



2 



Miscellaneous 



2 



Huauchinango, Puebla 



"Huasteoa" 





Molango, Hidalgo 





Puebla, town unknown 





"Sierra," town unknown... 





Teziutlan, Puebla 





Tulancingo, Hidalgo 









1 Communities are classified according to present municipal affiliation' 

 and the municinal units are grouped roughly according to elevation. 

 The lowlands and the intermediate zone are Totonae, but non-Totonac 

 elements are represented in the highland area and In the miscellaneous lot. 



The second column of the table gives the pro- 

 venience of the parents and grandparents of the 



heads of families and of their wives." A much 

 wider geographical range is represented. All the 

 lowland areas and those of intermediate elevation 

 are predominantly Totonae. In the highlands, 

 the municipality of Ahuacatlan is mixed; San 

 Andres is Totonae, San Juan, Mexicano. Tetela 

 likewise is Mexicano. The miscellaneous group- 

 ing is largely non-Totonac. Although Alto- 

 tonga and Teziutlan have a low percentage of 

 Mexicano, Totonae is not represented there. 

 Today, the native speech of Huauchinango is 

 chiefly Mexicano, but two pueblos of that munici- 

 pality are predominantly Totonae. Tulancingo 

 has a considerable Otomi and Mexicano element; 

 Molango, a bit of Mexicano, with Otomi negligible. 



In summary, it may be said that the present 

 population of Tajin is essentially local, in the sense 

 that it has been culled largely from the lowlands of 

 Papantla and immediately adjacent zones. A 

 minor ingredient is from Totonae areas of the 

 Sierra de Puebla and of intermediate elevation, 

 and there is an insignificant scattering of diverse, 

 non-Totonac elements. On the whole, it would 

 appear that Tajin is essentially Totonae in back- 

 ground, and we believe that its culture may be con- 

 sidered more or less representative of the Papantla 

 zone. 



Our impression is that the Totonae population 

 of the Papantla lowlands tends to shift consider- 

 ably, within a range of small compass; and the 

 composition of Tajin probably is about as stable 

 as is that of other small, local communities. These 

 statements are largely impressionistic, but the 

 original sheets of the 1940 Federal census tend to 

 be corroborative. Ordinarily, the census records 

 birthplace only by State ; but in a number of com- 

 munities of the Papantla area, precise birthplace 

 gratuitously has been noted. 



As a case in point, we may consider the pro- 

 venience of the Totonac-speaking population of 

 Aguacate, on the highway to Tuxpan. Its total 

 population is 777, of which 498 speak Totonae. 

 The provenience of the latter is as follows : 



oo T ue table does not attempt to show the number of relatives 

 ■which has come from each place. For example, one individual 

 has one or more parents or grandparents from Cazones ; 10 have 

 one or more from Coatzintla, etc. 



The data are not complete, yet they give a fair idea of the 

 background of the local population. A surprising number of 

 individuals is vague concerning the birthplace of grandparents. 



