Stereoview Cards Keystone

P171

(12897)

AN INDIAN HOME IN GUATEMALA, C. A.

If you wish to learn to carry baskets and water jars on your head, you must stand very straight.

These girls can make them balance without thinking about it.

There is nothing strange to

them about carrying things on their heads.

Their people have always done so.

Their people have always made houses like these, too, with cane walls and straw roofs.

Inside is a bed made of hardened earth and more cane.

There is no mattress and no bed clothes.

The only light at night is a torch.

This smokes more than an electric light.

Inside, too, there may be some home-made chairs and a queer fireplace, and maybe the stones for cooking tortillas.

What are they?

Just flat cakes made from crushed corn baked on hot stones.

The little girl is crushing the corn now on the hollowed stone with that stone roller.

These Indians think they could not live without fresh tortillas and beans.

That heavy hoe is probably used to hoe the corn.

Each family has a small cornfield.

They do not like to work.

Perhaps because they live in a hot place.

Perhaps because they get small pay.

They pick coffee berries and cut indigo for one dollar a day.

That is about five cents in our money.

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