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Armenia 
(Colima) 
March 4 
children or come themselves for sweet ooffee bread, corn, or other 
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things needed in the household for starting in the day. 
Then also begins the procession to and from the public well where 
the women and girls carrying large red earthen jars carry water for 
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the household uses both morning and evening for an hour or two. 
The water is sometimes carried by boys who use a pole on the 
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shoulder with a jar at each end, but it is almost always the women 
of the house who carry the water. The jar is carried on the left 
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shoulder and held In place by the up**raised left hand* and at times 
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by the right hand thrown over the top of head. 
The usual dark colored shawl is thrown about the head and adds 
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to the graceful outlines of the figure draped in the single straight 
gown and waist. The customs from childhood, here of carrying burdens 
on the shoulders and head and going barefooted or with sandals and 
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with no superfluous clothing to impede the movements unite to produce 
a remarkably graceful carriage of the body in walking. The motion is 
’©holly from th© hips do vm 9 and the body is held erect in an easy pose 
with the head well up and producing an effect very pleasing* Even 
quite old women have this and it is much more noticeable among th© 
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lower classes or burden carriers than among the higher class. 
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As a rule, the women have very common features, but there are 
several except!ons here, and one in particular whose face has 
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attracted my notice* She comes to the store morning and evening for 
corn, eto., and it is a pleasure to watch the sweet expression of 
mild dignity that seems habitual with her albeit she is merely the 
daughter of a poor woodcutter living in a palm-thatched hut across 
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the plaza. One afternoon, I took my camera and as she stood by 
herself for a moment by the door I asked her if I might take her 
picture. She was standing with her side toward me as I spoke, and 
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