Clothing. – Mexicans generally dressed quite simply: men with a short cloak and another even smaller one, square, for the shoulders, women with a canvas skirt tight at the waist and drooping up to half a leg or more down and a sleeveless shirt. They floated shoes of aloe leaves or deerskin attached to the […]
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Mexico Material Culture
Economy. – The great majority of Mexicans were made up of workers of the land and they attended to it with every care, as the primary element of subsistence and life; one of their months was devoted to agriculture and in their pantheon, several deities, more perhaps than war itself, represented it. The working tools […]