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INTRODUCTION 39 
In southern Mexico there are many towns of Indians 
where the women still wear the finely embroidered 
hutpilt. This old-time garment varies considerably in 
different towns but as a rule it is a simple sack-like gown 
cut square at the neck and with short sleeves. Some- 
times it is shortened to a blouse, and is worn with a 
skirt; at other times a short huipilz is worn over a longer 
one. An easily visited town where the natives still 
wear the old-time dress is Amatlan, within an hour’s 
walk of Cordova. The women of the Isthmus of 
Tehuantepec have a gorgeous costume of which the 
most remarkable feature is a wide ruff worn around the 
neck or on the back of the head. The Mayan women 
of Yucatan wear white huzpilt with needlework in color 
around the bottom. On the highlands of Guatemala 
the huzpilt is usually a blouse. The skirt sometimes 
consists of a strip of cloth wrapped several times around 
the body. 
The Lacandone Indians live in the marshy jungles 
that border the winding Usumacinta. ‘They speak the 
same tongue as the Maya Indians of Yucatan but in the 
matter of culture they have acquired little from the 
Spaniards. They still weave simple garments and make 
pottery vessels. In hunting they use the bow and 
arrow, the latter usually tipped with a point of stone. 
In their religious practices they use incense burners 
which are comparable to those of the sixteenth century. 
The Caribs occupy the greater part of the north coast 
of Guatemala and Honduras, running east from the port 
of Livingston on the Gulf of Amatique. These people, 
originally of South America and later of the West Indies 
as well, were deported by the English from the Island 
of St. Vincent in 1796. They have now established 
themselves in the new land where they raise the manioc 
or cassava root and press out the poisonous juice in a 
