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The Jesuits returned in the 1670s and ultimately baptized thousands of Tarahumara, but these people have retained a separate identity. Tepóraca was executed by the Spanish in 1690. [ 8 ] From 1696 to 1698, the Tarahumara again waged war against the Spanish, but were defeated.
Carl Lumholtz: <i>Tarahumara Woman Being Weighed</i>, Barranca de San Carlos (Sinforosa), Chihuahua, 1892; from <i>Among Unknown Tribes: Rediscovering the Photographs of Explorer Carl Lumholtz</i>. The book includes essays by Bill Broyles, Ann Christine Eek, and others, and is published by the University of Texas Press. Width: 1,950 px: Height ...
Tarahumara Woman Being Weighed, Chihuahua. 1892 photo by Carl Lumholtz.. Lumholtz later travelled to Mexico with the Swedish botanist C. V. Hartman He stayed for many years, conducting several expeditions from 1890 through to 1910 which were paid for by the American Museum of Natural History.
His reports betray an open curiosity: he noted all kinds of details, not only of nature, but also of the natives and their life. He mostly tries to show the Tarahumara in an objective light. He presents the Tarahumara as a "mild and civilized" people as opposed to some neighboring tribes. But they are "fiercely addicted to magic" like other tribes.
Native people of the region, Tarahumara or Rarámuri Indians called the area Bachotigori, meaning "Place of the enclosed waters", as they described the canyon, and its abundance of tropical flora and fauna to the Spanish explorers travelling through this rough part of the Chihuahuan mountains. Batopilas is a mangled Spanish version of the ...
For the New Spanish, America was a new land to explore for gold and silver and also to spread Christianity. The New Spanish named the people they encountered "Tarahumara", derived from the word Rarámuri, which is what the indigenous people call their men. Some scholars theorize that this word may mean 'The running people'.
American tourists Ted Barnett (C) and Jamie Otten look at news photos of the attacks on the World Trade Centre buildings in a cybercafe in Calcutta, September 12, 2001.
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