Word: yucatan
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...races of Yucatan, Morocco, and Lapland, including race mixture and race analysis, is now being studied by Dr. E. A. Hooton, of the Department of Anthropology, it was made known yesterday...
...Tozzer '00, Professor of Anthropology, and Curator of Middle American Archaeology and Ethnology, to pay the salary of a graduate student working under the direction of Professor G. P. Baxter '01, who will chemically analyze metal objects from Yucatan...
Basketball was originally a religious sport and had its beginnings a thousand years ago in the limestone pits and courts of Yucatan, according to Dr. S. G. Morley '07, who for three years has been directing excavations at Chichea Itza, a city of the ancient Maya Indians in northeast Yucatan under the auspices of the Carnegie Institute of Washington...
...Spinden '06, Curator of the Peabody Museum, opens the list with an appearance on November 10. Dr. Spinden, a noted authority on the ancient Mayan civilization, will speak about his recent expedition to Yucatan and Honduras and illustrate his talk with motion picture slides of the region travercel. His experiences among the primitive Indians of Central America form a narrative of great interest...
...Mosquito Kings, a story worthy of the imagination of Dean Swift. The Mosquito Coast is a small jungle district of Guatemala in Central America inhabited by some 8000 Indians and famous for its abundance of insect life. Its history runs back to the dim ages of Maya supremacy in Yucatan to the days when the Tolters ruled Mexico with their thousands of plumed warriors...