I really appreciate all the imput from everyone, but I'm still wanting to
see reference to a first person account of bovine blood use in packed
earthen floors in Hispanic context in America???

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From: "Bunny" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2008 3:19 PM
Subject: Re: cow's blood in floors


> The story about the roof tiles having been formed over maidens' thighs
was,
> as you probably already know, thoroughly debunked years ago by Edith
> Buckland Webb in her "Indian Life at the Old Missions" (Los Angeles:
Warren
> F. Lewis, 1952; reprinted in 1982 by the University of Nebraska Press).
She
> goes into considerable detail describing precisely how the tiles were made
> on pages 108-09.  No mention, alas, of ox blood.
>     Bunny Fontana
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Susan Walter" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2008 9:38 AM
> Subject: cow's blood in floors
>
>
> June 28, 2008
>
> Hello All,
> Working in San Diego Old Town, we are bedeviled by trying to tease out
fact
> from oral traditions...
>
> A current one we are dealing with regards the claim that cow's blood was a
> component of packed earthen floors.
>
> Long time residents of Baja that we know deny this as a fact.  Their
packed
> earthen floors are solidified simply with water.  Other historians we have
> questioned have not found this blood addition was done.
>
> So,
> 1.  Has anyone in the Histarch community heard of this?
> 2.  Is there documentation of it?
> 3.  Where and who documented it?
>
> Many thanks,
> S. Walter
>
> PS:  Then, when you are finished with bloody floors, there is the story
that
> roof tiles were shaped over maidens thighs...  And we can follow up with
> documenting the number of girl's petticoats that were torn up to make
> American flags...  And, oh Lord save us from Ramona.
>