Culture Kit

Yucatec Maya Culture Kit

ID # 4879

Mexico, North America

This interesting culture kit contains clothing items such as a traditional hat (p’óok), a huipil, a fustan, and some colorful “rebozos” (shawls). There are also children’s books such “Rain Player”, and “The Corn Grows Ripe”, and maps, including a Mayan Calendar Map, Mayan Communities Map, and Mayan Gods Map. Other items include a handmade wooden game, a miniature version of the pyramid of El Castillo at Chichén ltza, copal rocks, an incense burner, and a miniature Mayan hammock.

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Sharon Mújica

This project was developed by Sharon Mújica, Outreach Director, and funded under the auspices of the Consortium in Latin American 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, US Department of Education Title VI, National Resource Center.
The Consortium in Latin American Studies at UNC-CH and Duke University would like to acknowledge and express its gratitude to the following individuals and entities, without whom this project would not have been possible:
Miguel Güemez Pineda
Michael Huner
Hope Alfaro
Elizabeth Linzan
Katherine Ibarra