Mexican Indians use reed and palm to make objects of everyday use in Mexico. Making of sleeping mats called 'Pelates' (Peh-tah'-tez) in Mexico. Dry reeds spread over wooden logs. Man takes water in mouth and sprinkles it on reeds. A man weaves mat. He put bunch of Reeds at cross position and put a stone on it. He starts weaving and presses it by stone.
Mexican Indians use reed and palm to make objects of everyday use in Mexico. Basket made of palm leafs. Map shows location of Toluca near Mexico City. A man winds palm leaf strips around straws and makes base of basket. Woman gives finishing touch to a basket.
Mexican Federal soldiers firing from a trench in Mexico against Constitutionalists forces in Mexico (nearing time of U.S. punitive expedition against Pancho Villa). Smoke arises due to the firing. Dead Mexican soldier on the battlefield. A man views the dead soldier. Men sit outside shacks in front of a house. Federal medics give first aid to the Federal soldiers and people who are injured. A medic dresses the leg wound on a soldier.
Shows workers loading American plows in a truck parked outside the Foreign Relation building in Mexico. Exterior closeups of Oil Administration building ,the headquarters for oil of Mexico. Closeups of posters of various oil companies.1938.
Views at cornfield in Mexico. near Mexico City. Farmer with one mule cultivating cornfield. Farmer with scythe chopping weeds. Shows farmer cultivating cornfield with three mules.
Mexicana air crash near Mexico City, Mexico. 8 passengers die in the crash after the aircraft struck against the hill of Peñon de los Baños. Wreckage of the Mexicana Lockheed 10 Electra plane (XA-BAU) scattered on the mountain.
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