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Show 208 one riddle from Western Colombia, and reports the use of the very hard "wood" of this palm in the manufacture of the popular musical instrument called marimba. Manuel Patino, Victor, "El Cachipay 0 Pijibay (Guilielma Gasipaes Bailey), y su Papel en la Cultura y en la Economia de los Pueblos Indigenas de America Intertropical," America Indigena, XVIII (October, 1958), pp. 299-332. English summary: An account of the historical and traditional uses of the "pifibay" palm (Guilielma gasipaes (HBK) Bailey) is given. The revision covers the uses of: 1) stem, either whole for construction of fortress or palisades, or when split for the fabrication of weapons, sticks for agricultural purposes, and so forth; 2) inflorescences made into a sauce among the Yurumangui Indians of Western Colombia in the XVIII century; 3) tip of the stem (cabbage-palm or palmito), as a vegetable or salad; 4) fruit prepared in different ways: boiled and then dried for storage; reduced into flour for elaboration of a sort of bread; and for brewing two kinds of fermented drinks, chica and masato; 5) seed, similar in color and taste to that of the coconut; 6) fleshy part of the fruit (as well as seed) for fodder. Bromatological analysis of the mesocarp made at different times in Brazil, Costa Rica and Colombia demonstrate the unusual value of this fruit as a source of proteins and vitamin A. Several place-names derived from vernacular epithets of this species in Ecuador, Colombia and Costa Rica show its geographical dispersal and importance. 1959 Rubin de la Borbolla, Daniel F., "Las Artes Populares Indigenas de America, Supervivencia y Fomento," America Indigena, XIX, No. 1 (January, 1959), pp. 5-42. English summary: The author of this article, the Director of the National Museum of Popular Arts and Crafts of Mexico, analyzes the present status of native popular arts on the American continent. In the Antecedents, referring to the beginnings of the Inter- American Indian movement with the Inter-American Indian Congress in Patzcuaro, Mexico in 1940, he mentions some of the recommendations of the Congress with reference to the conservation and encouragement of American Indian popular arts. This art is, in the author's opinion, "the most direct link with the Indian past and with the origins of their culture. . .the singular popular expression which stamps its personality on the regional cultures. . .the means which facilitated the interculturation among Indian peoples and later between Indian and European." In practice, some countries, recognizing the cultural, aesthetic, |