"Chiapas, bordering on Guatemala, is even more an off-beat traveler-and-craft-hunter's paradise. There are the various Indian groups--Chontals, Chamulas, Tenejapans and Zinecatecans--do primitive weaving, leatherwork, and make interesting gold jewelry. Due to its remoteness Chiapas has scarcely changed over the centuries. You will delight over the absence of a tourist-souvenir industry. Not many people in Chiapas have had a chance to get a close look at vacationers, and very few of them have any idea at all of how easy an eleemosynary nut we tourists are to crack."
--James Norman, A Shopper's Guide to Mexico, 1966
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