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MEXICO/CENTRAL AMERICA CULTURE TRUNK (Set 1) INVENTORY LIST [Consists of 3 boxes (pt.1a, pt.1b, pt.1c) and 1 bag (pt.1d)]
BOX Pt.1a.
Realia
Coaster (Mexico)
Pinata (Mexico) (bull, multicolored, 18”h x 13”w)
Sombrero (red & gold cloth) (Mexico)
Table runner (small rug) (Mexico)
BOX Pt.1b
Booklets and Pamphlets (Cuna Indians, San Blas Ils., Panama)
“Art of the Cuna Indians” (4-page information pamphlet)
“Arts of the Cuna Indians”
“Molas: Needle Art of the Cuna Indian Women” (pamphlet describing exhibit)
“Siabibi’s San Blas: An Illustrated Notebook”
Books
The Best Burro by Frederick J. Moffitt
Day of the Dead: A Mexican-American Celebration by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith (Grade 4-6)
The Hummingbird King: A Guatemalan Legend by Argentian Palacios
Mexico (tour guide; color photographs)
Mexico and Central America by Keith Brandt
Mexico: A Literature Based Multicultural Unit (Grade 1-3)
My Everyday Spanish Word Book by Michele Kahn
Rainbows: Children’s Stories From Around the World – Costa Rica
by Naseem Ahmed
Teacher’s Manual and Student Activities Binder
Magazines
Archaeology (Special Travel Guide) (Vol. 39, #3)
“Maya Time Warps” (May/June 1986)
National Geographic
“Earth Almanac” (September 1995)
“El Salvador Learns to Live With Peace”
“Emerging Mexico” (August 1996)
“Maya Artistry Unearthed” (September 1991)
“Maya Heartland Under Siege” (November 1992)
“Mexico City: An Alarming Giant” (August 1984)
“On Assignment”
“Violent Saga of a Maya Kingdom” (February 1993)
National Geographic Traveler
“Guadalajara: City in the Sun” (September/October 1991)
Realia
Carved wooden fish (Mexico)
Chocolate stirrer (Mexico)
Insensaria (clay dish w/tall legs) and copal incense (Mexico)
Jicara gourd
Malacate (long carved rattle) and large decorated Jicara gourd (Mexico)
Maraca (Mexico)
Miniature dance masks (3) (Guatemala)
Miniature paper flags: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama
Molas (3 cloth layered animal sculptures (Cuna Indians – San Blas) (Panama)
Armadillo
Frog
Toucan
Petate (Mexico) (woven reed mat, 2’x3’)
Shirt (colorful) (El Salvador)
Samples of Mexican foods and spices: Cacao beans, Chili powder, Corn flour, Cumin powder, Garbanzo beans, Kidney beans, Lentils, Peppers, Pinto beans
Teponaztli and drumstick (Mexico)
Wooden bowl (decorated) (Mexico)
BOX Pt.1c
Audiotapes (copies)
“Children Sing Songs of Mexico”
“Los 15 Grandes Exitos de Ramon Ayala”
Mounted Pictures
Lacandan Girl (Chiapas, Mexico)
Mexican Maya today (set of 4) (mounted, laminated)
Mayan ceremony for patron saint (info on back)
Mayan holding past offerings of clothing and necklaces too worn to be placed on saint in ceremony (info on back)
Mayan woman brocading (info on back)
Mayan women & child (info on back)
Realia
Bark painting (laminated, mounted on yellow cardboard) (Mexico)
Ceramic skull (Mexico)
Cloth doll (Mexico)
Coins (2, pesos) (Mexico) (mounted in Plexiglas)
Effigy pot (opossum) (Mexico)
Fabric wall hanging (dish towel) (Mexico)
Flat handled market basket (Mexico)
Hanging shelf (Mexico)
Molcajete (clay bowl w/3 short legs) and two (plastic) chiles (boxed)
Mortar and pestle (Mexico)
Palm fan (Mexico)
Paper mache clown (Mexico)
Tortilla basket w/lid (Mexico)
Wall hanging (burlap & yarn) (Mexico)
BAG Pt.1d
Maps (laminated)
Central America (c.1984, Nat’l. Geographic)
Indians of North America/North America before Columbus (c. 1974, Nat’l. Geographic)
Mexico (cartoon map w/animals & sites. 5 children using Spanish phrases)
Mexico (mounted) (c.1984, Nat’l. Geographic)
Western Hemisphere map
Pre-Columbian Mexico (N. & S. America)(Olmecs, Mayas, Aztecs)
Mounted Pictures (laminated, mounted)
Mexican Maya Today
Mayan children (Guatemala) (children from Todos Santos Cuchamatan) (info on back)
Mayan marketplace (Guatemala) (market in Almolonga, Guatemala) (info on back)
Mayan women (Chiapas, Mexico) (Lucia and Petrona Gomez from Tenejapa, Mexico) (info on back)
Posters (laminated)
Mexico City and Mexicana - Fly Mexicana
Mexico: Social Studies Mini Unit (Intermediate) (reproducibles on back)
Red-Eyed Tree Frogs (reproducibles and activities on back)
Websites
Blank & Outline Maps (http://www.geography.about.com/cs/blankoutlinemaps/index.htm)
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