Word: itza
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...libretto-a tale of two city-states, Tuluum and Chichen-Itza, whose kings warred while a Tuluum prince loved a Chichen princess-was contrived by Don Luis Rosado Vega, Yucatan troubadour, once jailed for translating the Mexican constitution into Indian, now director of the Museum of History and Archaeology in Merida...
...four scenes were designed by young Juan G. Novelo. In the first scene, Tuluum is not the fortress-like ruin of that name on the Caribbean Sea but is revived with terraces, temples, palaces, facing inland against a background of green sea, blue sky. In the last scene, Chichen-Itza rears its pyramids from the dust of ages...
...immediate purpose of the expedition is to make a medical survey of the population of a section of that country. The region selected is about Chichen Itza where is situated a famous sacrificial well of the aborigines. There are some villages of mixed population in the neighborhood, and others of practically pure-blooded Maya Indians. Little is known of the diseases of these people, and it is hoped that this study may throw light upon the causes of the complete collapse of the Maya civilization which followed the Spanish conquest...
...coming of the Spaniard and their subsequent conquest of the country. It dates from the birth of Christ to the middle of the sixteenth century. The Carnegie Institution of Washington has chosen two fields of research, the first at Uaxactun in northern central Guatemala and the second at Chicen Itza in north-eastern Yucatan, Mexico...
...Another find of the season this one made at Chicen. Itza. consisted of a magnificent turquoise mosaic plaque. The work at Chicen Itza has centered in a group o" 1,000 columns and more particularly at the Temple of Warriors...