Artifacts Collection: Mexico and Central America (Set 2)

BOX Pt.2a

Booklets
Mascaras: Dance Masks of Mexico and Guatemala

Books
Authentic Mexican Recipes (in bag w/foods & spices)
Mexico: The Culture
Mexico: The Land
Zoobooks: Parrots

Magazines
Childlife
“Journey to Guatemala’s Heartland” (Autumn 1995)
New Mexico Magazine
“Mexican Masks” (January 1989)
Ranger Rick’s
“Mexico” (November 1979)

Mounted Pictures (laminated)
Mexican Maya Today (set of 5)
Mayan boys from Guatemala
Mayan children w/backstrap loom (girls from Nebaj)
Mayan family (Guatemala)
Mayan woman spinning cotton
Mayans: ritual meal before pilgramage to mountain shrine

Photographs (small)
Mexican masks (12) (in bag with “Mascaras...” booklet)
Animal mask with mouth open, tongue sticking out, has horns
Devil mask
Man wearing hat and red mask
Mask & gold top
Mask of man’s face
Mask of man’s face - brown hair & eyebrows, blue beard, red cheeks, one eye missing
Mask of man’s face - golden hair & mustache, rosy cheeks
Men and boys with hats on in front of building
Men and boys with tall hats and masks on, carrying flags
Person wearing hat with horns and fringe that covers the face
Wall of various masks
Yellow leopard mask

Realia
Back strap loom, batten, & diagram
Bottle gourd with corn cob stopper (Mexico)
Carved wooden fish (Mexico)
Jicaro gourd (small, cut)
Jorongo (poncho) (Mexico)
Mexican dance mask (Mexico)
Miniature dance masks (Guatemala)
Piggy bank (Mexico)
Samples of Mexican foods and spices w/recipe book: Cacao beans, Chili powder, Corn (or maize) (ear of corn),
Corn flour, Cumin powder, Garbanzo beans, Kidney beans, Lentils, Peppers, Pinto beans

BOX Pt.2b
Books
Corn is Maize: The Gift of the Indians (ages 4-8)
Living Maya
Mexican Masks
Opossum and the Great Firemaker: A Mexican Legend Taxco (tour guide; color photographs)

Magazines
National Geographic
“Earth Almanac” (September 1995)
“El Savador Learns to Live With Peace”
“Guatemala: A Fragile Democracy” (June 1988)
“La Ruta Maya” (October 1989)
“City of Kings and Commoners: Copan”
“Copan: A Royal Tomb Discovered”
“Emerging Mexico” (August 1996)
“Nicaragua: Nation in Conflict” (December 1985)
“On Assignment”
“Panama: Ever at the Crossroads” (April 1986)
“In Defense of Collectors”
“Looters Rob Our Past”
“Rio Azul: Lost City of the Maya”
National Geographic Traveler
“The Nature Parks of Costa Rica” (March/April 1991)
“The Rarefied Romance of Oaxaca” (Summer 1988)

Realia
Mano & metate (elongated table stone & roller for grinding corn)
Maraca (Mexico)
Olla (round clay water pot w/3 handles) (Mexico)
Palm leaf hat with colorful band(Guatemala)
Purse (multicolored, woven) (Guatemala)
Sombrero (straw) (Mexico)
Wooden bowl (decorated( (Mexico)
Worry dolls (12 little dolls tied together in an bunch) (Guatemala)

BOX Pt.2c
Audiotapes (copies)
Children Sing Songs of Mexico
Los 15 Grandes Exitos de Ramon Ayala

Booklets
“God’s Eyes”

Books
Teacher’s Manual and Student Activities Binder

Realia
Burden basket (Mexico)
Eucalyptus branch (Mexico)
Figurine set (4 pieces in 2 pkgs.)
Basket
Comal (griddle)
Mano & metate
Woman
Miniature tortilla basket (Mexico)
Ojo de Dios (God’s Eye) (Mexico)
Pottery colander and soaking pot for corn
Pottery shoe form pot (model) for soaking & cooking beans
Tump line (woven sash w/2 ropes attached at each end) (Mexico)

BAG Pt.2d
Maps (laminated)
Central America: Past and Present / Central America (April 1986, Nat’l. Geographic)
Indians of South America / Archaeology of South America (c.1982, Nat’l.Geographic)
Spain in the Americas / The Grand Exchange (February 1992, Nat’l. Geographic)
A Traveler’s Map of Mexico / Mexico (September 1994, Nat’l. Geographic)
Western Hemisphere map (hand-drawn) (mounted on foamboard) (Map #1)
The Present (N., Central, S. America)

Posters (laminated)
Endangered Species of North America (reproducibles and info on back)
Mexico (Mexican children w/mountain background) (reproducibles and activities on back)
Mexico is ready...to craft you timeless treasures (two women sewing)
Mexico Our Neighbor / Go Fly a Kite
Mexico: The Amigo Country (The New Basilica at the Shrine of Guadalupe – Mexico City)
Parrots (reproducibles and activities on back)

Websites
Blank & Outline Maps (http://www.geography.about.com/cs/blankoutlinemaps/index.htm)

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