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& is used for making small stiff brushes.

On Fridays is the main market day in Patzcuaro & the two plazas are filled with these indians who have for sale a great variety of fruits, vegetables, fish from the lake & maguey fiber ropes, bags &c besides a handsomely made variety of rich reddish brown pottery. Also grass mats. The people bring their stuff up to market in packs on their backs with the strap crossing the chest in place of the forehead as I have seen the common custom in Jalisco & Colima.

The women bear heavy burdens up the hill to town in this way as well as very often a heavy child in a zerape on the back. In the plaza they are ranged in double rows across the open ground & each seller is required to pay a tax of one or two cents for the privilege of the market space. The women wear a hand-woven skirt [[strikethrough]] cover [[/strikethrough]] of a dark color with small plain longitudinal pattern. The material is brought together at the waist behind in a multitude of folds 3 to 4 inches wide which have their ends against