Culture Kit
Nahua Culture Kit
ID # 4876
This kit has handkerchiefs, shawls, market bags, and typical food items. You will also find an Aztec Calendar, maps, books about the Aztecs, coloring books, and an activity book. Have your students explore the incense burner, jaguar mask doll, and video of Aztec dancers. The kit also has instruments such as drums, Aztec Sonajas or rattles, and a reed flute. Finally, there are items for daily life such as kitchen cloths, hay brooms, and a woven fan.
“Often scholars and laypersons alike refer to the Nahua people as the “Aztecs.” Aztec, of course, is the popular name of the legendary empire that dominated much of central Mexico just before the arrival of the Spanish to the New World. Most “Aztecs” though were ethnically Nahua, speaking the common language of Nahuatl. And these Nahua did not call themselves “Aztecs.” The name “Aztec” emerged centuries after the collapse of the empire in reference to the mythical northern origins of the Nahua people who built it. In fact, as such stories of Aztec mythology indicate, the Nahua people have a history that stretches back centuries before the existence of the Aztec empire.”
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Sharon Sullivan Mújica
This project was developed by Sharon Sullivan Mújica, Outreach Director, and funded under the auspices of the Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University, in conjunction with the Center for Latin American Studies at San Diego University, and the US Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center.
The Outreach Office of the Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at UNC-CH and Duke University would like to acknowledge and express its gratitude to the following individuals and entities, who worked on this project at one phase or another. A very special note of thanks and gratitude must be given to Katherine Ibarra who worked hard and long on many of the sections. Hope Alfaro also was an important member of the team.
Hope Alfaro
Juan Aparicio
Joseph Conway
Katherine Ibarra
Samantha L. Mújica
Ivan Pallares
Judith Rodríguez
We would also like to thank collectively the staff of the Institute for the Study of the Americas at UNC.