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usually go barefoot although sane sandals are used. These jackets of 
the men are not open In front but are put on over the head. The cow¬ 
men wear tight vaquero trousers of tanned deerskin dyed brown with a 
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j aeket of the same color having long sleeves that hang over the hands 
with a slit on one side below so that the hand is not wholly enclosed. 
The Indian women were walking about town by scores naked from the waist 
up, A tight skirt consisting of a broad strip of striped, haadwoven 
cloth is wrapped tightly about the hips and hangs straight down to the 
ankles. This is held in place by a handwoven sash. About their heads 
the women usually had a square piece of handwoven whit© cotton cloth 
that usually hangs about the shoulders or may cover nearly all of the 
bo<fy or be folded merely on the head leaving the body quite naked above 
the waist. Sometimes the white cloth is replaced by the huipil which 
is a sack like garment coming to the knees and with short flowing sleeves 
and only open at the top by a round hole for inserting the head. These 
huipiles are of handwoven cloth (cotton) with various figures woven into 
the cloth and with an embroidered band about the neck opening, and 
stripes running from shoulders to hem before and behind. Many of the 
younger women are pleasant faced and rather attractive appearing* the 
breasts are rarely well farmed and hang down flat and pendulous in the 
middle aged or old ones. They sell tortillas, fruit, dried fish, and 
so forth about the market here. Both men and women are short but rather 
well built, many being sturdily formed. Their faces are rather short 
and oval and their features while often rough or irregularly formed are 
generally fairly well proportioned. Their cheek bones are not very 
prominent and the general form of the face is a short oval. The men - 
wear the hair cut rather short. The women 
long and rather coarse 
black hair which is twisted into a long roll and then wrapped like a 
band about the crown. The color is a rich, warm brown. Their eyes are 
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