[Aztlan] mayan/hammock question

[Bunny]

Curiously enough, tthe Northern O'odham (i.e., Pimas and Papagos) of 
northern Sonora and southern Arizona are known to have used hammocks in 
their ramadas at least as early as the nineteenth century, and possibly 
centuries before that.  Hammocks were also used in some of the New Mexico 
pueblos, such as at Cochiti.  I seem to recall that Bill Sturtevent, a 
cultural anthropologist at the Smithsonian Institution, once worked on a 
study of the distribution of hammocks in the New World.  Whether he 
published the results of his studies or not I don't recall.  I'll e-mail him 
with a query, and if the results are positive, let everyone know.
    Bunny Fontana

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hube Smith" <husmith at charter.net>
To: "Miguel Covarrubias" <migcov at gmail.com>; <MBuffardi at marthastewart.com>
Cc: <aztlan at lists.famsi.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Aztlan] mayan/hammock question


> On the other hand, there are no such things as "hammock holders" in any 
> Maya
> house or "na," the thatched
>
> house of the rural folks. Hammocks are slung from beams because the
> wattle-and-daub walls won't hold hammock
>
> hooks--as you will certainly see mounted on the walls of city-dwellers 
> whose
> homes are made of concrete block,
>
> by and large.
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Miguel Covarrubias" <migcov at gmail.com>
> To: <MBuffardi at marthastewart.com>
> Cc: <aztlan at lists.famsi.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 10:32 AM
> Subject: Re: [Aztlan] mayan/hammock question
>
>
>> Certainly hammocks are not a Maya invention. There's no evidence of
>> hammock
>> hangers in Maya architecture as there are curtain holders and internal
>> benchs, among other items, into Mayan houses.
>> It seems hammocks arrived to Yucatan through the Caribbean during 
>> Colonial
>> times.
>>
>>
>> 2007/5/1, MBuffardi at marthastewart.com <MBuffardi at marthastewart.com>:
>>>
>>>
>>> Some of my preliminary research on hammocks has pointed me in the
>>> direction
>>> of the ancient Mayans. I was wondering if anyone knew anything about 
>>> the
>>> history of the hammock, and the validity of the belief that it 
>>> originated
>>> with the Mayan Indians.
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>>
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