The livestock are very important because they provide fertilizer for the crops. The cows help to plow the fields. Their limited contact with outside communities means that they do not often participate in the cash economy. They also use cotton for their clothes, which is obtained through trade. Men wear a breechcloth, held up with a sash, with a simple shirt.
Women wear a long and loose cotton skirt, also secured with a sash, and either a shirt or a poncho.
Women will also wear a woven headband. They have little or no furniture. Their belongings consist of mats and hides for bedding, gourds and ceramic jars for food storage and a metate for grinding corn. This is particularly common for families who own goats or cattle. In the canyon, the family lives in caves, and the people spend their time weaving baskets and blankets and tending to their animals.