Scribner's magazine . Storehouses made from Logs. always square. Each storehouse has adoor or opening about two feet square,. Summer House with Corn-cribs. throuoli which a man may creep withsome trouble. AVlieii uot in use as acloset by the inhabitants of the cave,the door of the storehouse is closed upwith a piece of board and the edg-esti<rhtly cemented ^^ith clay. This isalways done when the family leaves thehabitation to o^o to some other place,and nothing is considered more heinousby the Tarahumaris than to break opena storehouse thus sealed up. Whenthe storehouses are built of logs a
Scribner's magazine . Storehouses made from Logs. always square. Each storehouse has adoor or opening about two feet square,. Summer House with Corn-cribs. throuoli which a man may creep withsome trouble. AVlieii uot in use as acloset by the inhabitants of the cave,the door of the storehouse is closed upwith a piece of board and the edg-esti<rhtly cemented ^^ith clay. This isalways done when the family leaves thehabitation to o^o to some other place,and nothing is considered more heinousby the Tarahumaris than to break opena storehouse thus sealed up. Whenthe storehouses are built of logs andare outside the caves, they are usuallyplaced in the most inaccessible sj^ots ofthe neighborhood, sucli as on top of abig bowlder or uj) on the slope abovethe cave. They are used as receptaclesfor the surplus riches of the family,consisting chiefly of corn, blankets, andcotton cloth. Corn is the chief agricultural ju-oductof the Tarahumaris, who also cultivatebeans, and in rare cases, in the barran-cas, tobacco, l)ut all upon a small chief dish, t\\ice a day, is what theMexicans also use to a great extent
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