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Native Honduran Models and their Historical Facts by Red Dragonette

Native Honduran Models and their Historical Facts

Red Dragonette

This exhibit and its information sign were at the Gumbalimba Park's museum. If you want to know what it says, if you can't read it, here it is:

"Before Spanish contact, native settlements were small and dispersed, and housing was semipermanent, probably made of perishable materials such as CANE, MUD, and THACTH. These original islands usually lived in land, not near the coast. There was a close dependence on a varied and plentiful environment, and CEREMONIAL or RELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES provided and important social function.

These islanders planted MANIOC as a starchy stable crop. They also planted MAIZE and processed it in ways similar to their Mesoamerican neighbors. They probably used DUGOUT CANOES to catch reef fish as well as sharks; they gathered horse clams, west Indian tops and conchs. They supplemented these protein sources with land crabs, turtles, iguanas, deer, small mammals such as agouti, and probably fruits as pineapples, papaya, nances, coyol nuts. They used local woods and made projectile points and blades from flints and imported obsidian. They participated in a ceramic technology known as COCAL, which they shared with groups on the northeast coast. They also showed strong TRADE ALLIANCES with mainland peoples who provided them with COPPER for making ornaments, CACOA, and semiprecious stones (JADE)."

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