Word: itza
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Culled by four hundred and more expeditions, the display will include gold, jade, textiles, and ceramics from the Americas. Among other objects never before publicly exhibited are the jade and metal findings dredged from the Sacred Well at Chicken Itza in Yucetan...
...Giro Over Mexico. Down upon a terrace of the famed Chichen-Itza ruins in Yucatan, where the Carnegie Foundation has an outpost, plumped an autogiro piloted by Capt. Lewis A. ("Lon") Yancey. In less than two hours he had windmilled over the mountains from Merida, a journey which takes most of a day by narrow-gauge rail and wagon. Having flown the first 'giro to Cuba and thence to Mexico, Pilot Yancey visited Mexico City before heading for the U. S. Pacific Coast...