Word: lacandon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jungle Gods. The diplomatic approach has its uses for archeologists too. In 1945, Giles Greville Healey, archeologist for the United Fruit Co., struggled on foot and muleback into the ruin-haunted jungle of Mexico's state of Chiapas. His assignment: to study the Lacandon Indians, thought to be the last remnant of the fabulous Mayas. The Lacandones still speak a Maya dialect, but have relapsed into shy and gentle savagery...
Before starting out for the Lacandon area, an American friend, Ed Myers, brightened...
...Mexico came the story of an ancient, charming and all but extinct people-the Lacandon Indians in the remote southern state of Chiapas, who trace their beginnings to the ancient Mayans. Husky, gun-toting Gertrude Duby, a Swiss explorer, visited the Lacandones in Chiapas, returned to Mexico City last week with many a tale about them...
...Lacandon girls get engaged when they are five or six years old. The elders believe in long engagements; not until the girls are ten or eleven, and old enough to make tortillas, are they permitted to marry. The Lacandones are polygamous in theory. In practice, the scarcity of women limits most of them to one wife. Husbands sometimes lend their wives to distinguished callers, are much upset if the offer is refused...