Mayo Ethnobotany: Land, History, and Traditional Knowledge in Northwest Mexico

List of Illustrations

Illustrations Unless otherwise credited in the caption, all photographs are by David Yetman. All drawings are by Paul Mirocha. The land of the Mayos (map) 2 Coastal thornscrub near Jambiolobampo 5 Pascola and deer dancers, Masiaca 6 Nelo López, Yavaros 7 View of coastal flats and thornscrub 9 The upper Río Mayo north of San Bernardo 14 Norma Humo and her son, José Luis Baisegua, Sirebampo 20 Holy Saturday in Masiaca 21 Fariseos (Pharisees), Benito Juárez 21 Fariseo, Etchojoa 22 Men watching pascolas, Masiaca plaza, Holy Week 23 Don Reyes Baisegua, Sirebampo 24 Doña Amelia Verdugo, Los Muertos 25 Plaza, Nahuibampo 27 Mayo transportation, Masiaca 28 Burros, Masiaca 28 House of woven pitahaya arms, Bachomojaqui 31 House of adobe walls and dirt roof, Teachive 32 The Catholic church in Masiaca 37 Mayo family, Yópori 58 Clearing for bu¤elgrass 59 Vicente Tajia contemplates the pitahayal 60 Mangrove estuary near Topolobampo, Sinaloa 63 Coastal thornscrub near Camahuiroa 64 Coastal thornscrub near Jambiolobampo 66 Foothills thornscrub, Cerro Terúcuchi 68 Foothills thornscrub, Mesa Masiaca 69 Tropical deciduous forest near Alamos, September 70 Mayo home, tropical deciduous forest, Los Capomos, Sinaloa 71 Transitional tropical deciduous forest near Yocogigua, March 72 Tropical deciduous forest in drought near Alamos 73 Tropical deciduous forest with sabinos (Taxodium distichum), Río Cuchujaqui 75 Río Cuchujaqui gorge near Alamos 75 Ébano (Caesalpinia sclerocarpa) on Arroyo Camahuiroa 76 Pascola mask carved by Francisco Gámez 80 Filemón Navarete, Ejido Fernando Solís 82 Vicente Tajia gathering pitahaya fruits near Coteco 83 Aaqui nábera (crestate pitahaya) 84 Pitahaya fence, near Bachoco 85 Pulp of the pitahaya fruit 86 Aca’ari (pitahaya gathering basket) made by Serapio Gámez 88 Pitahaya zarca (white pitahaya fruit) 89 Cu’u (mezcal; Agave vivipara) 91 Don Reyes Baisegua with a mass of ixtle (agave fiber) 93 Morral (ixtle handbag) woven by Don Reyes Baisegua 94 Vicente Tajia with etcho cactus (Pachycereus pecten-aboriginum) near Camahuiroa 96 Etcho fruit 97 Living fence of etchos, sahuiras, and pitahayas near Güirocoba 98 Overgrazed pasture with etchos 99 Sato’oro (Jatropha cordata) in thornscrub near Teachive 101 Sato’oro’s shiny bark 102 viii / Illustrations Saya (Amoreuxia palmatifida) 104 A male jito (Forchhammeria watsonii) tree in flower near Huebampo 105 Vicente Tajia beneath an enormous pitahaya 108 Criollo (creole) cows 111 Corral of brasil trunks (júchajco in Mayo; Haematoxylum brasiletto) 112 Aurora Moroyoqui weaving a cobija (blanket) 114 Dried flowers of sanjuanico (tásiro in Mayo; Jacquinia macrocarpa) 121 Baogoa (mezcal; Agave cf. colorata) from Sibiricahui 136 Doña Artemisa Palomares of Los Capomitos, Sinaloa 140 Mabis, fruit of mabe (tonchi; Marsdenia edulis) 142 Woven wall of batayaqui (Montanoa rosei) poles 147 Sonajas (rattles) made of ayales (fruits of Crescentia alata), Los Capomos 150 Young pochote (Ceiba acuminata) near Yocogigua 154 Cuajilote (Pseudobombax palmeri) in dry season near Güirocoba 155 A leafless palo mulato (Bursera grandifolia) 159 Sahuaro (saguo in Mayo; Carnegiea gigantea) on Mesa Masiaca 162 Nómom (Peniocereus striatus) cactus 168 Domingo Ibarra with sina cuenoji (Selenicereus vagans) on palo chino near Huasaguari 169 Francisco Matus and sinaaqui, an apparent hybrid between pitahaya and sina, near Piedra Baya 170 An exceptionally large sahuira (Stenocereus montanus) near Baca, Sinaloa 172 Jútuguo (Ipomoea arborescens) in leafless transitional tropical deciduous forest near Yocogigua, March 179 Güerequi (choya huani in Mayo; Ibervillea sonorae) near Teachive in the dry season 181 Stakes of vara blanca (cuta tósari in Mayo; Croton fantzianus) near Alamos 185 Ébano (Caesalpinia sclerocarpa), Arroyo Camahuiroa 197 Trunks of brasil (Haematoxylum brasiletto) 203 A palo chino (Havardia mexicana) near San Bernardo 205 Brea (choy in Mayo; Parkinsonia praecox) near Teachive 212 Illustrations / ix Balbina Nieblas sweeping with an escoba of jíchiquia (Abutilon incanum), Teachive 225 Tescalama (rock fig, báisaguo in Mayo; Ficus petiolaris) near Chorijoa 230 Fruits of papache borracho (pisi in Mayo; Randia obcordata), Huasaguari 247 Chiltepines (có’cori in Mayo; Capsicum annuum) being dried near Nahuibampo 255 Chair of guásima (agia in Mayo; Guazuma ulmifolia) made by Marcelina Valenzuela, El Rincón 262 Leaves and fruits of sanjuanico (tásiro in Mayo; Jacquinia macrocarpa) 263 Orégano (Lippia palmeri) being stirred by Berta Valenzuela, San Antonio 268 x / Illustrations ...