The Pima Bajo of Central Sonora, Mexico

Abstract

A cultural geographer, concerned with the material culture and environmental utilization of the Pima Bajo, reports on the folowing areas of Piman life: Agriculture, gardening, food preparation, hunting, gathering, fishing, animal husbandry, ceremonies, games, drugs, leather goods, fibers, textiles, personal adornment, and dwellings. He focuses particular attention to the utillization of native plants by the indigenous group. These are based on archival records of contact and post-contact periods, a record of Piman vocabulary, and three summers of fieldwork spent among the Pima Bajo at Onavas between 1968 and 1971.