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Title: Bulletin
Chichanha Indian priest in front of altar at Cha chac ceremony

Identifier: bulletin641918smit (find matches)
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Subjects: Ethnology
Publisher: Washington : G. P. O.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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GANN) MAYA INDIANS OF YUCATAN AND BRITISH HONDURAS 4a to erect two rude huts, one 12 feet the other 6 feet square; both were thatched with huano leaf, and the floor of the smaller hut was covered with wild plantain leaves. In the center of the larger hut was erected a rough allar 6 hy 4 feet and 4 feet 6 inches high, built of sticks bound together with bejuco (fig. 11). The central part of this
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altar was covered by an arch of "jabm" branches with the leaves still attached. About a dozen small calabashes in their ring supports (Maya chuyub) were placed on the altar, and three more were hung to a string passing from the side of the shed to a post a few yards away. The masa prepared the previous night was then brought out m four large calabashes, two of these being placed under the altar

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