Citations:tenamaste

English citations of tenamaste

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1. Any of the three stones traditionally used to elevate a comal above a fire in Mesoamerican cultures, or all three taken together.
   • 1987, Papers of the New World Archaeological Foundation, page 174:

     Tenamaste stones were used as pot rests or firedogs in a cooking fire.

   • 2005, Pablo Valderrama Rouy, The Totonac, in Native Peoples of the Gulf Coast of Mexico, page 199:

     Also, at the foot of the tenamastes people bury coins, chiles, grains of corn, and a handful of beans to assure that the domestic food supply will never run out. [...] Contemporary Totonac usually construct a wooden box with legs that is filled with dirt on which the tenamastes are placed. The most sacred place in the main room is the home altar [...]

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• 1971, Lawrence H. Feldman, A Tumpline Economy: Production and Distribution Systems of Early Central-East Guatemala, page 169:

  The cooking pots were placed on these tenamaste stones

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• 1978, Doris Tijerino, Margaret Randall, Inside the Nicaraguan Revolution, page 91:

  There was no kitchen but they made a tenamaste—three big stones, with firewood in the middle and on top the casserole to cook in.

• 1978, Ruben E. Reina, Robert M. Hill, The traditional pottery of Guatemala, page 183:

  The ollas are laid mouth down in two layers — each of the lower vessels is supported by three tenamastes, while the upper vessels are placed at the interstices between those below. Bunches of twigs are stuffed between the tenamastes, and comales are laid [...]

• 1997, Artes de México, issues 36-39, page 70:

  To which the defendant responded that he had given Faustino powders made of ground tobacco, plantain peels charred to ash, and the jelly and meat from a snake, roasted on the tenamaste stone, all of these combined and mixed together.

• 2004, Alicia Alarcón, The Border Patrol Ate My Dust (→ISBN), page 107-108:

  I reminisced about those New Year's eves of my childhood. Sitting together with my brothers in front of the kitchen stove. A pot of tamales cooking over hot tenamaste stones. Very close to the cornfields, [...]