Word: lacandones
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Before starting out for the Lacandon area, an American friend, Ed Myers, brightened...
...Mexico came the story of an ancient, charming and all but extinct people-the Lacandon Indians in the remote southern state of Chiapas, who trace their beginnings to the ancient Mayans. Husky, gun-toting Gertrude Duby, a Swiss explorer, visited the Lacandones in Chiapas, returned to Mexico City last week with many a tale about them...
...Lacandon girls get engaged when they are five or six years old. The elders believe in long engagements; not until the girls are ten or eleven, and old enough to make tortillas, are they permitted to marry. The Lacandones are polygamous in theory. In practice, the scarcity of women limits most of them to one wife. Husbands sometimes lend their wives to distinguished callers, are much upset if the offer is refused...
...latest of these memoirs has just been issued under the title "Researches in the Central Portion of the Usumatsintla Valley," by Mr. Teobert Maler. This work gives a full and interesting description of Mr. Maler's work for the past year, including his visit to the little-known Lacandon Indians of Lake Petha...