The historic tradition for fishermen/women when catching fish, one will bite the head to contain/kill the fish and place it in his/her guagua (basket). I recall fishing out on the reef with my talaya, and found myself doing the same when I forgot to bring with me a plier to perform the same effect.
Some 65 years apart, two Chamorro men suffer similar fates of being choked by attempting to bite the head of the small fish. The left side of the photo is from Father Ibanez’s Diary, where he recorded the incident of Lucas de los Santos on March 27, 1870. On the right side is the incident of Antonio Cruz Cruz that occurred April 16, 1935.
