# MEXICO: MAGUEY

MEXICO: MAGUEY Produced: 1941 Description Documentary: On the maguey plant. Reel 1: Explains that maguey, a century plant of amaryllis family, grows in Mexico City. Indians draw liquid from plant for processing into aguamiel, a drink. Illustrates use of large maguey leaves for roofing, making thread and rough fiber cloth. Reel 2: Indian Otomi women make thread and ayate fiber cloth on hand-made spindles and looms. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/94923

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1941
- By: National Archives
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/h-hf-168-r1)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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