[Aztlan] mayan/hammock question

[Hube Smith]

Of course .... a major savings of space just as in the rural Maya home.



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Subject: Re: [Aztlan] mayan/hammock question


> Here a credible (but not documented) claim that the hammock was known 
> outside of Mesoamerica long before the Conquest.
> 
> From the British Royal Navy  "Navy slang"  item on hammocks:
> 
> http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/server/show/nav.3812
> 
> "Just as his rifle is described as a soldier's best friend, his hammock 
> is described as a sailor's best friend. When properly lashed up, a 
> sailor's hammock will support a man in the sea for 24 hours. It is said 
> that the use of the hammock on board ship was introduced by Aloibiados, 
> who commanded the Athenian fleets war in about B.C. 450; Christopher 
> Columbus is also credited with the introduction, having found (in 1493) 
> that the natives at San Salvador slept in cotton nets (called 'hamaca') 
> suspended between two trees. Hammocks were introduced into the Royal 
> Navy in about 1600."
> 
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