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...exhibition in New York, which was coordinated by Maya Scholar Charles Gallenkamp, features objects of ineffable fragility and beauty. These include six polychrome ceramic bowls excavated over the past five years at Tikal, the largest of all the known ancient Maya cities. Found in tombs at a site dubbed Mundo Perdido in the Peten jungle of Guatemala, these funerary vessels depict the underworld gods and beasts that haunted the Mayas. One bowl rests on a turtle swimming in a painted, stylized underground sea. Rising from the lid is the symbol of resurrection, a long-beaked water bird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Treasures From the Jungle | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

Come-On. In Los Angeles, eleven-year-old Charles Gallenkamp taught his dachshund to lick war stamps, sold several hundred dollars' worth to fascinated spectators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 15, 1942 | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

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