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Artifacts Collection: Ancient Aztecs, Mayas and Incas

TMC REALIA 372 A5418A

ANCIENT AZTECS, MAYAS & INCAS INVENTORY LIST

Consists of 2 boxes (pt.1, pt.2) and 1 bag (pt.3)

Contents of Artifacts Collections may change slightly as materials are added or lost.

BOX Pt.1 Please return all items marked Pt.1 to this box.


Books

Ancient America: Great Ages of Man
Ancient Mexico (Field Museum)
Eyewitness: Aztec, Inca and Maya
The Incredible Incas and Their Timeless Land
Pre-Columbian Art: Guide for Young People
Teacher’s Booklet (list and newspaper article) (blue binder, clear cover)
They Lived Like This in Ancient Mexico

Data Cards

Aztec Picture Records (25)
The Painted Rooms of Bonampak (20)
Ruins of Central Tikal (30)

Magazines

Kids Discover (blue binder, clear cover)
The Maya (2) (March 1993)
National Geographic (in separate binders)
*"The Aztecs" (December 1980) (*in 1 binder)
*"The Building of Tenochtitlan"
"An Early Maya Metropolis Uncovered: El Mirador" (September 1987)
"Lost Empire of the Incas" (December 1973)
*"New Finds in the Great Temple"
"New Light on the Olmec" (November 1993)
"Peru’s Ice Maidens" (June 1996)
"Pizzaro: Conqueror of the Inca" (February 1992)
"Rio Azul: Lost City of the Maya" (April 1986)

Pictures (mounted)

Aztec Calendar (copy)
Aztecs (20)
Aztec conquerors, The (painting of warriors in animal skins attacking
people)
Aztec warriors that have been honored by their ruler with feather cloaks, shields, and headdresses
Aztecs: cruel cults and fine arts (sculpture of a jaguar)
Chiseled from solid rock, eagles and a jaguar in this chamber at Malinalco witnessed imperial military rites
City of myth and dreams (people in boats in the foreground and pyramids in the background)
Deities both kind and cruel (paintings of 6 Aztec gods and goddesses)
Fit for the gods (a turquoise mask, two-headed snake, and handled
sacrificial knife)
Hearts for the sun" (priest sacrificing a man being held down)
Inside a house (woman w/a child on back grinding peppers; old woman looming thread; man making a net)
It rains, it rains (man with a goat)
Luxuries flowed (Aztecs in the crowded marketplace)
Military marketplace, A (very decorated soldiers at war, fighting)
Monumental sculpture of Coatlicue (large stone sculpture of a goddess)
New century, new fire (people holding torches)
Nobles’ parties lasted all night (men sitting down being served food by women, entertained by jugglers and music)
On the temple platform (priest dancing on the temple platform in front of a blood-soaked altar)
Sahagun records first Aztec history (men sitting around painting nature scenes)
Survivor of the ‘war of the witches’ (an old woman and her daughter)
Tlachtli players, The (men playing tlachtli – a ball game)
Young nobleman with a cloak, headdress, fan, and flowers; other nobles around him)

Realia

Cacao beans (in pkg w/chocolate stirrer)
Chocolate stirrer (Mexico)
Miniature Chac Mool woodcarving


BOX Pt.2 Please return all items marked Pt.2 to this box.

Booklets

"Mayas: Treasures of an Ancient Civilization"

Books

Amazing Ancient Treasures
Aztec Indians: A New True Book
The Aztecs
A Coloring Book of Incas, Aztecs, & Mayas
Corn is Maize
The Days of the Mayas, Aztecs, and Incas
The Hummingbird King: A Guatemalan Legend
The Inca: A New True Book
The Maya (A New True Book)
Mayans, Aztecs & Incas (thematic unit)
Opossum and the Great Firemaker: A Mexican Legend
Wonders of the Ancient World

Magazines

Modern Maturity (blue binder, clear cover)
"Discover the Secrets of the Incas" (June/July 1987)
National Geographic (bound separately)
"City of Kings and Commoners: Copan" (October 1989) (3 in l binder)
"Copan: A Royal Mayan Tomb Discovered"
"La Ruta Maya)
"Maya Masterpiece Revealed at Bonampak" (February 1995)
"The Maya" (December 1975) (contains the following)
"Children of Time"
"Resurrecting the Grandeur of Tikal"
"Riddle of the Glyphs"
"A Traveler’s Tale of Ancient Tikal"
"The Timeless Vision of Teotihuacan" (December 1995)
"Unearthing the Oldest Know Maya" (July 1982)
"Violent Saga of a Maya Kingdom" (November 1993)
Ranger Rick (bound separately)
"Chocolate" (June 1987)
"Mexico" (November 1979)
Win (bound)
"The Maya: Ancient Time Managers"

Pictures (mounted)

Incas (8) (National Geographic)
Colored rope snake is being carried by dancing people
Farmer digging up potatoes w/sister and wife, and women trading potatoes for llama meat
Incan girls with water jugs, house and mountains in background
Incan priests and other nobles climb the steps of a temple
Incan prince being carried on shoulders of his men with nobles following behind
Men running a relay race, and a priest holding a golden bowl
Three noblemen wearing colorful clothing meet and tell jokes
Two men w/a bunch of llamas, mountains behind them
Mayan Calendar (copy)
Mayas (19)
Ceremony and sport: the Maya ball game (painting of people watching a Ball game)
Chichen Itza (a building in the city of Chichen Itza)
El Castillo (a pyramid)
First great Maya city, The (painting of a Mayan city)
For the record (man chiseling a slab of rock)
His shop at his feet (man w/clay pottery around him)
In the Heart of the Yucatan Peninsula (deteriorated pyramid in the midst of a huge forest)
Life returns to a dead metropolis (overhead view of Tikal)
Magnificent obsession of the Maya (Mayan glyphs, National Geographic, December 1975)
Mighty rulers raise new temples atop the old (painting of people working on pyramids)
On the loom of time (woman at a loom)
Palenque
The People who feed Tikal (painting of women preparing food w/men working in the background)
Piece of the Maya puzzle, A (man walking w/long wooden sticks w/pots tied to them on his back)
Quirigua’s sculptures: sermons in stone
Racing looters (National Geographic, April 1986, page 461)
A Second Bonanza (inside a Mayan tomb)
Sending a noble (painting of people at a death ceremony for an important Person)
Young boy with his hair slicked back
Olmec head
Pottery (2) (two-handled dish for serving food & a jug and jar)

Realia

Aztec king (clay model replica of statue) (Mexico)
Miniature jaguar throne


BAG Pt.3 Please return all items marked Pt.3 to this bag.

Maps

"Ancient Maya World" / "Land of the Maya: A Traveler’s Map" (2)
"Archeological Map of Middle America"
"Central America: Past and Present" / "Central America"
"Colonization and Trade in the New World"
"Indians of North America" / "North America Before Columbus"
"Indians of South America" / "Archaeology of South America"
"Spain in the Americas"/"The Grand Exchange"
"A Traveler’s Map of Mexico" / "Mexico"
"Visitor’s Guide to the Aztec World" / "Mexico and Central America" (2)

Pictures (mounted)

Mayas (2)
Collage of cities and temples
Mayan version of The Farmer’s Almanac

Posters

Ancient Ruins (3)
Chac-mool statue, Chichen Itza
Temple of the Sun, Palenque
Tulum, Uxmal, Palenque, Monte Alban, Chichen Itza, Teotihuacan

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