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OPEN MARKET ON PANAMA BEACH |
MUSIC IN THE SOLITUDE |
| Pure-blooded natives, who have never been conquered nor permitted intermarriage, these San Blas Indians often come to Panamá city to trade bananas for cloth and gunpowder | Most of the Peruvian Indian tribes fashion simple musical pipes like this — a hollow reed with three holes at the lower end, emitting thin and rather melancholy but not unpleasing notes |
THREE MEN OF THE LARGE-FOOTED TRIBE
| Hide overshoes cover their buskins in bad weather, partly explaining the term "patagon" — large foot, applied to the Tehuelches by their Spanish discoverers. Brave of heart, they fear nothing save the red wolf, great condor, and rapacious puma, which play havoc with their flocks |