Spanish Cantinieres

I had an earlier entry, "Joy of the Regiment" about Spanish Cantinieres in Spain's African Colony.

http://ilikethethingsilike.blogspot.com/2010/02/joy-of-regiment.html

Here are some earlier Spanish Cantinieres...."CANTINERA"

These images are from the  19th Century.The image below is from 1860 of a Cantinera in Africa

I only found the image but nothing on the unit but this Cantinera was stationed in Cuba.

The images below are from the Third Carlist War

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Carlist_War

Spanish Folk groups today have whole companies of Cantineras uniformed in this tradition.

"María Peironcely, una cantinera de TECNUN" at the University of Navarre (cooking school?)
http://www.tecnun.es/en/ps/noticias/listado-de-noticias/v/72/browse/35/actualidad/maria-peironcely-una-cantinera-de-tecnun.html

"Estatua a La Cantinera en Eskoleta."

I have to find out more about this tradition.