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INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY PUBLICATION NO. 13 



Totonac- 

 Provenience: Tohmac Spanish 



Cazones : monolingual! bilingual) 



Barra de Cazones 1 



Cazones 2 



Coyutla: 



Coyutla 1 



Gutierrez Zamora: 



Gutierrez Zamora 1 



Papantla: 



Aguacate 169 215 



Arroyo Colorado 2 



Caristay 3 1 



Carrizal 14 5 



Cerro Grande 1 1 



Mozutla 5 



Papantla 6 



Pital 1 



Polutla 2 



Poza Verde 2 1 



Puente de Piedra 4 1 



Santa Agueda 16 6 



Sombrerete 5 12 



Taracuan 1 



Volador 5 



Municipal unit not identified: 

 Arroyo Grande (Papantla 



or Gutierrez Zamora). 1 

 Escolin (Papantla or 



Coatzintla) 1 



Lim6n Grande 2 2 



"Veracruz," town not in- 

 dicated 2 



Not specified 7 



Total 240 258 



Here again we have the impression that the local 

 population is in a considerable state of flux, but 

 that the essential elements are all Totonac, from 

 the lowlands about Papantla. And much the same 

 situation holds for other local communities, for 

 example: Arroyo del Arco, Arroyo Grande de 

 Boca de Lima, El Chote, Madero, Plan de Limon, 

 Santa Cruz, and Serafin Olarte. This shifting of 

 the local population undoubtedly has resulted in 

 a general blending of culture, if indeed there were 

 local differences at one time. 



COMPOSITION 



According to our count, the Taj in Totonac com- 

 prise 186 families, 1 with a total of 1,102 inhabit- 

 ants. Accordingly, there is an average of nearly 

 6 persons per household. The composition of fam- 

 ily groups will be discussed in Part 2 of this report. 



Data at hand permit two independent analyses 

 of the age-sex-speech distribution of population. 

 For the first (table 7; fig. 1), information comes 



1 As explained previously, we have excluded from the census 

 16 families who live on Tajfn lands but who give communal labor 

 in Ojital centers ; informants consider that they belong to Ojital, 

 not to Tajfn. By the same token, we have included one family 

 which lives on an Ojital parcel, but which gives public labor in 

 Tajfn. Undoubtedly this is contrary to normal procedure, but 

 «o have tried to follow the Totonac definition of Tajfn. 



Table 7. — Composition of Tajin population 1 





Males 



Females 





Age group 



-a 

 

 •a 



8> 



CJ 

 U 



yj 



-3 



CD 



to 



I 



c 



03 



►J 



to 



03 



s 



a 



*o 





 O 



s 



V 



Oj 



H 

 o 



o 



Eh 



.a 



W 



3 w 



03*03 



a = 



"I 



o— * 



03 



a 



O 



o 



Eh 



CO 



03 



3 



bo 

 'o 



a 



o 



a 



a 



03 



s 



o 



o 



■a 



03 

 g 

 W 



■5 



<D 

 bo 



<a 

 3 

 bo 

 a 



03 



CO 



"3 



a 



3 



*o 



a 

 a 



a 



o 



03 

 13 

 o 



O 



■a 



.a 



CO 



«■? 



2 = 



Ctc 

 m£ 



cz 



a 



o 



o 

 £h 



co 

 o3 



3 



a 



"o 



c 

 o 



a 



CO 



I 



C 



3 

 o- 



s 



3 



s 



o 

 E- 



0-4.. 



63 









63 



54 



56 



35 



33 



27 



17 



23 



12 



12 



4 



4 



5 



1 



6 



4 



1 



2 







56 









56 



55 



41 



43 



37 



41 



18 



22 



16 



8 



4 



9 



2 



3 



2 



1 



1 











119 



5-9 . 



26 

 11 

 5 

 4 

 5 

 4 

 4 

 2 

 2 

 

 1 

 2 

 1 

 4 

 3 

 1 

 1 

 



22 



39 



25 



27 



19 



11 



16 



8 



7 



4 



2 



2 







2 



1 







1 







6 

 6 



5 

 2 

 3 

 2 

 3 

 2 

 3 

 

 1 

 1 

 

 

 

 

 

 



45 



19 



23 



24 



26 



11 



10 



10 



6 



2 



6 



2 



2 



2 







1 











4 

 17 

 16 

 9 



12 

 7 

 6 

 4 

 1 

 2 

 2 

 

 1 

 



1 





 

 



6 

 5 

 4 

 4 

 3 

 

 6 

 2 

 1 

 

 1 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



109 



10-14.-. 





97 



15-19. 





78 



20-24... 





70 



25-29 





68 



30-34... 





35 



35-39.- 





45 



40-44-. 





28 



45-49 





20 



50-54 





8 



55-59... 





13 



60-64 





7 



65-69 





4 



70-74 





8 



75-79. . 





5 



80-84 





2 



85-89 





2 



90+ 















Total 



63 



76 



190 



34 



359 



56 



189 



82 



32 



359 



718 



1 In 1940, by age, sex, and speech. The Information comes from the 

 original sheets of the 1940 Federal census, on file in the archives of the 

 Direccion General de Estadistica, in Mexico City. 



The table gives the numerical data on which figure 1 is based; the 

 relatively large number of Spanish monolinguals is discussed in the 

 legend to that figure. 



Table 8. — Composition of Tajin population ' 





Males 



Females 





Age 

 group 



■3 



■d 



CO 

 bo 



03 



s 



a 



03 

 1-1 



CO 



bo 



.2 



"o 





 o 



a 



03 



C 

 o 



o 

 Eh 



3 



.C to 



.2 "3 



SB 



6 



OS 



a 



o 



o 

 Eh 



3 



o 



.e 

 3 

 m 



-c 



CD 



■a 



M 



03 



CO 



■d 



C9 



bo 

 03 



3 



3 



C3 



CO 

 *C3 

 3 

 CUD 

 P 



"3 

 a 



o 



a 



o 



03 



C 



o 



o 



Eh 



3 

 ■8.S 



S 3 

 £ bo 

 C-c 

 CO — 



&> 



OS 



a 

 o 



o 



Eh 



CO 



"c3 



S 



a 



"o 

 a 



o 



S 



CO 



1 



o. 



GO 



3 



o 



3 

 CO 



"as 

 o 



Eh 



0-4 



90 







90 



88 



72 



57 



48 



34 



29 



29 



15 



16 



11 



8 



8 



1 



4 



5 



3 



1 



3 



97 









97 



94 



70 



58 



49 



44 



34 



29 



30 



14 



16 



9 



14 



4 



3 



2 



4 



2 



2 



187 



5-9 



68 

 30 

 18 

 13 

 4 

 6 

 3 

 1 

 3 

 2 

 4 

 2 

 

 

 1 

 2 

 

 2 



20 



42 



39 



35 



30 



23 



26 



14 



13 



9 



4 



6 



1 



4 



4 



1 



1 



1 



72 



49 

 35 

 30 

 31 

 22 

 21 

 21 

 9 

 15 



9 



4 

 3 

 2 

 4 

 2 

 2 



22 

 21 

 22 



18 

 12 

 11 

 8 

 9 

 5 

 1 

 2 

 5 

 

 

 

 

 

 











1 



1 

 1 



1 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



182 



10-14 .. 





142 



15-19 





115 



20-24 





97 



25-29 





78 



30-34 





63 



35-39 .. 





58 



40-44... 





45 



45-49 





30 



50-51 .. 





27 



55-59 





17 



60-64 





22 



65-69 





5 



70-74 





7 



75-79 .. 





7 



S0-84 





7 



85-89 





3 



90 





5 









Total- 



90 



159 



273 



522 



97 



338 



136 



4 



575 



1,097 



1 In 1947-48, by age, sex, and speech, according to our own census. 

 The table gives the numerical data on which figure 2 is based. 



Of the total population of 1,102, only 1,097 individuals are represented 

 in the table and figure; 5 small children were excluded, for want of 

 information concerning age and sex. Two were omitted through oversight; 

 another was not reported by the family. Presumably the offspring of a 

 plural wife, the father attempted concealment. The two remaining 

 children allegedly are the result of an incestuous union, and the family 

 denied their existence. 



