Field notes, v1411
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3 February 1972. Tangigue, Tabasco, Mexico in Tangigue, especially on Satur-day. Poet seemed glad to inform; talked slowly, clearly. Tzign skins sell at 200 p., he said./Many cocobolos - kayotes in tulutania ruins, the taking me kind prohib- ited./We saw 2 ocelot skins donating Table of one local house. with chain (?) Also, few new type teeth used as ornament by one man in Escanapa. Poet said that gpr. hunter from Mexico city sometime took 2 or 5 types - this supports M. Alvarez del Toro theory of professional hunter./About midnite, took train to Escanapa - 3 1/2 hrs. 4 February 1972 In market, butcher had cut up armadillo, on the slate, and a peto on leash. A bystander said butcher sold a type out recently for 100 p. Broke away. We walked out of town toward Chet- umuh, waiting for bus. On road found dead skink again, partly skinned 6' alligator, Didelphis (ed) block culture. Mr. hem. 5, parrots. Two armada (= ?) dog pound. Large oliv-green tanger? w. white throat; said in roadside shrubs. Bus picked us up - we got off at