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EXPLORING THE MAYA WORLD
RESTORING
HISTORY
This staircase has been
robotically reconstructed
from plaster casts,
drawings and photos
meticulously recorded
by Maudslay at Palenque
during the 1880s. This
reproduction will be
installed on top of the
original staircase to
protect it from further
damage and to show
how it used to look.
ANCIENT SPORT TRADITIONAL ATTIRE
This is a Maya figurine portraying a Maya women used backstrap looms, which
player of the Mesoamerican ballgame, wrapped around their waists, to make textiles
a traditional sport that involved from cotton, although they could also be
moving the ball without using your made from barkcloth or animal skin. In fact,
hands or feet. The ballgame also had textiles were so important to the Maya that
a deeper ritual meaning and it played sometimes tribute was paid with blankets.
an important part in Maya religion.
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