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In Indian Mexico (1908)

CHAPTER XIX
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It is a quaint piece of painting, with mountains valleys, streams, caves, trees, houses, churches and villages represented on it with fair exactness.

It was probably painted at the same time that the _titulo_ was given to the village.
The morning after our arrival, we witnessed a quadruple indian wedding in the church at seven.

The brides were magnificent in the brilliant _huipilis_, and the godmothers were almost as much so, with their fine embroideries.

The ceremony was much like that at Coixtlahuaca, already described.

The bride put a silver ring upon the groom's finger, and he did the same by her; the priest put money into the man's hands, he transferred this to the woman, and she to the priest; single chains were hung about the neck of each of the party, both men and women; the covering sheet or scarf was stretched over all four couples at once, covering the heads of the women and the shoulders of the men.
Near the town-house, along the main street, is a series of sheds or shacks used as shops, altogether numerically disproportionate to the population.


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