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Next year, visiting professors from Latin America will include Villa Rogas, a Mexican expert on Mayan Indians, and Orlando Fars Borda, a Colombian sociologist, in the fall, and Rodriguez Monegal, a Brazilian expert on comparative literature, in the spring...
...camera built by Hughes Aircraft will probably be the first to explore the moon's surface, and cameras are also reaching far back into the past. A nine-lens aerial spy produced by Itek will soon begin searching out ancient Mayan and Incan ruins in the jungles of Mexico and Guatemala. It will also be used to study the behavior patterns of a timid tribe of Mexican Indians-believed to be direct descendants of the Mayans-by spying on them from...
MUSEUM OF PRIMITIVE ART-15 West 54th St. More than 50 examples of sculpture of primitive peoples, including the figure of a 6th century Mayan priest, one of the few examples of Mayan wood carving to have survived termites and jungle rot. Through...
...pubic regions are pocket guarantees of good crops. Perhaps the highest point of pre-conquest art-and the most exciting part of the Los Angeles show-was the painted room of the temple at Bonampak, a pyramid whose corbel vaults-arches made by stepping stones inward-display 8th century Mayan frescoes strangely linked in style with the flat, frontal reliefs of the ancient Egyptians. Their bold, sophisticated expressionism is so compatible with modern art that they suggest the eternal life of forms...
Simon Bolivar and Benito Juarez, and write essays contrasting the Aztec and Mayan civilizations...