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...everyone scrambling for pre-Columbian art, local Indians have learned to copy the originals handed to them by dealers, are selling fakes to gullible tourists as fast as they can make them. And some are so well done that even the art dealers get clipped on an occasional imitation Mayan...
Indian and Mayan artists had developed the musical art to a high degree before the Spanish invasion, Chavez noted, and so were able to absorb the European musical ideas as they were brought over with the conquistadors and priests...
When the Miami wing of the Civil Air Patrol first got a bill for dockage of a 64-ft. yacht, the Mayan, at a Fort Lauderdale marina, Lieut. Colonel Claude F. Lowe, executive officer, just laughed and laughed. Everybody knew the Miami CAP was so poor that its members had to pay their own office phone bills. Then, when a Coral Gables man called to ask if he too could give the CAP a yacht, Lowe began to think that something was fishy...
...York CAP; that by ringing doorbells he had collected enough money to buy the New York pilots the latest radio equipment, buses and other luxuries. And where did the rest of the money come from? As Lowe recalls, Pierce replied: "You've been investigating the Mayan, haven't you? You ought to know...
...display of rare sculpture, pottery, and gold and jade ornaments from the Mayan and Aztec cuture is now open to the public at the Peabody Museum...