Photograph of Doña Angelina Contreras of Monte Bustillo shaping dough for corn tortillas into balls. Some pots and cookware are visible on a stove behind her.

Photograph of a hand-dug cistern at Villanueva, Mexico. This cistern was part of a water-collection system designed to save rainwater for household use.

Paper discussing which herbal remedies used in folk medicine "are biomedicines, which are placebos, and which are toxins by evaluating a large collection of herbal remedies used by Hispanics in South Texas and northern Tamaulipas, Mexico."

Draft of a paper tracing "the jacal from its pre-Hispanic origins in the pithouse to its emergence as a surface structure like those described by the earliest Spaniard soldiers and missionaries in the La Junta region." The author also identifies modern examples of the jacal that are still in use today; the paper includes a glossary and illustrations.

Photograph of jacal va in Val Verde, Municipio de Ojinaga, Chihuahua. This particular jacal was used for storage. The walls between the horcones (corner and center posts) are made of adobe brick.

Photograph of the Lujáns of Loma de Juárez, a barrio of Malatta, making asaderas. A woman is rolling dough on a kitchen table, a man is shaping the dough from a bowl, and a child watches both of them.

Photograph of people making chicharrones in San Carlos in 1979. The food is in a large pot outside, and someone is stirring it with a stick while another person watches.

Photograph of Doña Angelina Contreras of Monte Bustillos rolling dough for corn tortillas.

Photograph of a close-up view of a wall of jacal Va #A in Val Verde, Municipio de Ojinagá, Chihuahua. Horcones (corner and center posts) are visible.

Photograph of the wall structure of collapsed jacal home LP #B. The home was in La Paz, Municipio de Coyame, Chihuahua. The interior of this jacal was plastered with lime.