Besides this characteristic product, the town makes a good deal of unglazed but polished red pottery.

The forms are chiefly candle-sticks, censers and toys.

Much weaving of palm is here done, and the hats of the place are rather famous.

Famous, too, are the _mantas_, or women's dresses, of black wool, made in long rectangular pieces.

The common grade sells for $6.00, and in using it, it is, like indian dresses generally, simply wrapped about the figure and held in place by a sash or belt.
Nowhere in our journey in southern Mexico had we met with the kind of scenery which we encountered between Magdalena and Tlaxiaco; its whole character was like that of New Mexico.