The National Pak indicates that jacal construction is sometimes called “wattle and daub” (with “wattle” referring to strips of wood and “daub” referring to soil, clay, sand and/or dung). While other sources indicate the two methods differ, the fact is that jacals use a latticework of thin stakes bound by a cover of adobe or mud—which is essentially the same as, “wattle and daub.”
Gilberto Luna built his Jacal (picture above) by applying mud plaster to latticework walls of cane grass and ocotillo. Built low to the ground and with a natural protection to one side, this jacal is located in the southwestern area of Big Bend, about six miles north of Santa Elena Canyon Overlook and Mexico
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