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Title: The Republic of Mexico in 1876. A political and ethnographical division of the population, character, habits, costumes and vocations of its inhabitants
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: García Cubas, Antonio, 1832-1912 Henderson, George F
Subjects: Indians of Mexico Mexico Mexico -- Social life and customs
Publisher: Mexico : "La Enseñanza" Printing Office
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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The types I present in Plate IV, group 2 nd. belong to the Chilchota people to the South East of Zamora, a place where the Indians retain their customs in all their purity. The dress of these Indians is composed of a woollen cassock called a gabardine, wide trowsers or " calzoneras " of cloth and leather, a woollen zarape or cloak called quixchan, leather shoes with folds, lined with green or red morocco and a straw hat. The rich women wear cloth skirts and the poor people a coarse tex- ture woven by themselves ; they use a shirt of white linen and a striped mantle or shawl, sometimes of different colors. Their trinkets consist of ear-rings of common metal or of gold or silver and coral or bead necklaces, with ribbons of colored worsted with which they adorn their hair and embroider their petticoats very prettily, and the quichquemel. When they marry they give the husband, as a wedding present, a waist-band exceedingly well made and a napkin.
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The Zoquez Indians inhabit the Western part of Chiapas, to the North of the Sierra Madre, a small portion of the South of Tabasco and the mountainous district where the towns of Chimalapa are situated in the State of Oaxaca, and the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Formerly they occupied a small tract of land on the borders of the territory of Tabasco, for- ming an independent nation and well populated, which was subjugated by Marin, during his expedition to Chiapas. Their capital was called Ohcahuay and in Mexican Tecpantlan which signifies " the seat of palaces. " The remains of the habitations of the former Zoquez are still to be met with both in Oaxaca and Chiapas. Those who reside in the districts referred to and in some parts of Chiapas, principally in the towns of Tuxtla Gutierrez and Tapijulapa are of an athletic form and are easily distinguished by the rare custom of shaving their heads all except- ing on the front part. (See group 3rd. Plate IV.)
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