Front:
MAYAN TEMPLE, CHICAGO WORLD'S FAIR
WF.46
1936
16rb
EN
15
LROY
3A-H585
Back:
The morgans
36.
July 16-31, '33. The
MAYAN TEMPLE
An exact reproduction in actual colors of the
famous Nunnery of Uxmal, a Mayan City of
Yucatan, Central America. The original was erected
about 1200 years before the Christian era.
had a mathematical system based on geo
a thousand years before our mediterranean ancestors
The walls of this temple are creed wirktas liberaten Sie gang, hvege maske
heads, and great serpents carred in stone. Prithin the temple, friestesses
kept the sacred fire burning to let it die out meant death by stoning. They wove
gamönents for the firiests, who occupiedilarge residencia on of the prybannada,
vanished
went
to men the living descendants of another civilization the rolth american Indian.
a section of a thorthwest Coast house is reproduced, with a plank house and
carred to tend poles. text is one of the woodland groups living in riguams. Incon-
trast to these are the tipi-divellers of the plains. Then come the stavajs, roaming people
Etme measure, and then the webtoo, Fith temaced villages. Here we saw theloogle +
Buitarfly dances by Lopicencians from arizona, the Geibechil and Firedances by Standjos
from thew mexico, the Omaha + Boog teast dankes by lidhux indians, I.D., Green Corm and make
codedores de mortat 19334, and @afronderful imitation of bride and animals
by Entergreen from then just a short distance in steps but centuries in time and
dame to the modern american home of brick, steel and glass.
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