Word: maya
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...American Indian," by Dr. Clark Wisler, of Columbia; November 16, "Ghost Worship and Buddhism in India," by Dr. J. H. Woods '87, instructor of Indic Philology; December 2. "The Characteristics of Primitive Culture," by Dr. Franz Boas, of Columbia, and head of the Field Columbian Expedition; December 7, "The Maya Hieroglyphs," by Mr. C. P. Bowditch...
...Cole 2G., Austin Teaching Fellow, will leave Cambridge today in order to carry on some explorations, for the benefit of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, among the ruins of the Maya Indians at Chichen--Itza, Yucatan. Mr. Cole intends to join Mr. E. H. Thompson, who is now in Yucatan carrying on archaeological explorations for the Peabody Museum. The object of the expedition is to make a general collection of such zoological specimens as may be of value to the Museum...
...highlands of Guatemala by Mr. Gordon of the Museum. In past years he has been engaged in excavations in the ruined cities of Guatemala, Quirigua and San Augustin, and Copan in Honduras, and during the past winter he has been living in the highlands, among the remnants of the Maya race, the founders of these cities, in order to discover traditions in regard to the history of the cities and the reason they were deserted. These attempts have been without results. The articles of dress, however, which he collected are rare specimens of ethnological interest, as the dress as well...
...Peabody Museum to explore the ruined cities of Central America, has just returned. He spent two months in Honduras and three months in Guatemala. The principal part of his work was the exploration of the ruins of Quirigua, Guatemala, the most important ruined city of the ancient Maya civilization. It is buried in a dense tropical jungle through which roads had to be cut to reach the site. The most remarkable of the relics are the stone monoliths covered with inscriptions and weighing from fifteen to sixty tons. During his investigations at Quirigua Mr. Gordon discovered two new monoliths, each...