Árbol sagrado, Clerodendrum lingustrinum
Achira, Canna indica
Agriculture, beans of Highland Maya, especially K'ekchi'
Agriculture of the Mayan speaking people of Mesoamerica
Agriculture, food, milpa
Architecture, Chenes style, Santa Rosa Xtampak
Architecture, grass for straw thatch
Architecture, houses, thatch roof
Architecture, houses, thatch other than only palm fronts
Architecture, houses, corozo, corozal, cohune palm thatch roof
Attalea cohune, corozo, corozal palm tree, for thatching Mayan houses
Architecture, houses, drying corozo, corozal, cohune palm thatch before roofing
Architecture
Corbel vault under stairways, showing scan results
Rescue old black-and-white Hasselblad photos of Maya architecture
Ak, aak, native grass of certain eco-systems of Guatemala used for thatch including by K'ekchi' Mayan people
Architecture, houses, thatch roof
Amaranto (in Spanish), amaranth (in English), Amaranthus (botanical genus)
American Ink Jet Corporation (media for wide format ink jet color printers); Europe
Antiquities laws (it is against the law in Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, and Mexico to smuggle pre-Columbian art)
Animal dictionary in Q'eqchi (K'ekchi') Mayan language
Archaeological Sites
Aguateca
Ceibal
Copan
Seibal
Tayasal
Tikal
Topoxte
Uaxactun
Yaxha
Asociación FLAAR MESOAMERICA
Programs
Activities
Attalea cohune, drying corozo, corozal palm tree, for thatching Mayan houses
AutoSafari Chapin, Guatemala
Auto Safari Chapin, macaws; a well maintained zoo near the Pacific Ocean, Guatemala.

Bucut, Bucutz, Carague, Carao, Cassia grandis, Mucut, Pink Shower
Barba de leon, zacatlaxcali, xmach kaqkoj
barbas de camaron, Cuscuta corymbosa
Batata, Ipomoea babatas, edible root crop
Bats, Camazotz slicer bat, "killer" bat of Popol Vuh, bat statues, paintings
Band-tailed barbthroat hummingbir, Threnetes ruckeri
Ballgame, ballcourts, ballplayers (pre-Columbian Maya ballgame)
Architecture of Ballcourts
Ballgame decapitation ritual, Tiquisate style
Ballgame, more Tiquisate decapitation scenes
Ballgame iconography, sculpture, vases
Mayan Basket making in San Rafael Chilascó
QTVR object movie (3-D virtual object, rotatable), Maya ballplayer figurine
Beans, frijoles, agriculture of the K'ekchi' Maya
Better Light large format digital camera system, closeup of scanning back
Bledo, the leaves of amaranth.
Bats, Camazotz slicer bat, "killer" bat of Popol Vuh, bat statues, paintings
Bibliographies
Artibeus inopinatus, Honduran fruit-eating bat,
Astrocaryum mexicanum, Chapaya, edible flower
Black Mayan salt source bibliography
Canna indica, platanillo, a potentially edible root
Calathea macrosepala, Chufle, edible root
Chamaedorea tepejilote, Pacaya, edible flower
Cnidoscolus aconitifolius, chaya
Coccoloba uvifera, uva de mar, seagrape
Dioscorea trifida, yam edible root
Fernaldia pandurata, loroco
Ipomoea batatas, Sweet potato or Camote, edible root crop
Justicia spicigera, Muicle, Firecracker
Lantana camara, cinco negritos fruit color
Manihot esculenta, yuca edible root crop
Maya Musical Instruments
Pachyrhizus erosus, Jicama, edible root crop for Mayan food
Renealmia alpinia, Jengibre de jardín
Sechium edule, Ichintal, edible root
Yucca elephantipes, flor de izote, edible flower
Xanthosoma sagittifolium, malanga, edible root crop
Bilbao area culture, Santa Lucia Cotzumalguapa, Escuintla, Guatemala
Birds of Guatemala, Q’eqchi’ Mayan – Spanish – English dictionary translations
Boutique Hotels
Book Reviews
Biodiversidad de Guatemala by Enio Cano, Universidad del Vallle de Guatemala.
Digital Imaging Technology, Pearson and also Peachpit Press.

CalendarMaker software, use your pictures of Maya archaeology to make your own calendars at home on your computer.
Camote, Ipomoea batatas, edible root crop
Cacao, Chocolate
Cacao flavoring, magnolia
Calabash tree
Canna lily, Canna indica
Casa Lefebvre, Boutique Hotels
Cassava
Carague, Carao, Cassia grandis, Bucut, Bucutz, Mucut, Pink Shower
Carludovica palmate, kalá in Q'eqchi' Mayan language
Canac, Canak, Chiranthodendron pentadactylon, manitas tree
Caves, Cahabon in Alta Verapaz
Caves, Candelaria
Caves, Yaxlik Cave, Alta Verapaz
Caves, Xibalba in Alta Verapaz
Caves, Xilbalba of the Popol Vuh, Cueva del Tigre, Jaguar Cave, Aldea Plan Grande Tatin, Livingston
Camazotz, slicer bat, "killer" bat of the Popol Vuh, stone sculpture, vase paintings
Codex style vase with bat, VIGUA Museum, Antigua
Chama Maya ceramic art of Highland Guatemala (rollout of a rare all-glyph bowl)
Chaya, Cnidoscolus aconitifolius
Cocoyam, Xanthosoma sagittifolium
Colibrí colirayado, Threnetes ruckeri
ColorSpan wide format color printer for exhibit quality photo enlargements without a darkroom.
Colors are deeply embedded in Mayan Culture
Late Tiquisate vase with two snakes
Copan Altar Q, Honduras. Tips and suggestions in Photography
Copan, Honduras, image menu; additional version of the image menu
Copan, macaws at Copan Ruinas, Honduras
Maya sculpture from the Copan museum, Monkey Ahau; water bird as deity headdress
Copan bat from Copan Museum; Tlaloc from Sculpture Museum
Printing Scorpion Constellation deity from throne front, Copan Sculpture Museum
Copan QTVR (requires QTVR plug-in)
Copan, gateway to virtual objects, virtual ballcourt, virtual museums (village and sculpture)
Rotating Maya skull from Copan
Rotating Maya vase from Copan, local polychrome style
Rotating incised vase from Copan, Honduras, Central America
Corozo, corozal, cohune palm thatch roof, Maya house architecture
Corozo, corozal, cohune drying the palm before thatching roof roof, Maya house architecture
Cowfoot, Bauhinia divaricata
Crocodile and Caiman, general introduction and list of suggested reading
Crocodile sculpture, bedrock outcrop, Los Sapos, Copan, Honduras
Cygnet DVD-RAM and CD jukeboxes for storage of digital photographs
Cut-outs printers
San Rafael Chilascó, Mayan Basket
Chapaya, Astrocaryum mexicanum
Chenes architecture, Santa Rosa Xtampak
Chinchines
Choco palm, Astrocaryum mexicanum
Chufle, Calathea macrosepala
Cyclocephala amazon

Deer, white-tailed, meat, leather hides, antlers as tools
Deities, pantheon of precolumbian gods of the ancient Classic Maya of Guatemala
Curly Face, part of the Tiquisate Trinity (not to be confused with Palenque Triad)
Closeup detail of Curly Face panel from a Tiquisate cylindrical tripod
Jaguar God of the Underworld, lid handle of a Quiche urn, closeup.
Standing Jaguar God of the Underworld, cave incensario, Tabasco
Complex Jaguar God of the Underworld cave incensario, Tabasco
Closeup of the bust of Jaguar God of the Underworld, cave incensario.
Closeup of head of the Jaguar God of the Underworld, showing cruller between the eyes.
3/4 view of Jaguar God of the Underworld cave incensario from Tabasco.
Deity which shares many features with Jaguar God of the Underworld, Red Band Tepeu 1
Perforator paddler, one of the Paddler Gods
Various deities on image menu for Museo Popol Vuh
Maize God, Paddler Gods, detail on black background vase, Museo Popol Vuh
Desktop publishing
Recommended printers for desktop publishing (see Tally laser printers
Warning, what printers to avoid? Epson printers ink colors fade quickly
Dicomed Field Pro digital camera with Better Light adaptor
Digital Imaging Equipment
Dogs as hunting assistants; Maya vases, bowls, plates
Don Udo's Hotel
DVD-RAM, the best and most cost-effective storage for digital images; DVD-RAM jukebox

Encad NovaJetPro wide format printer, Copan bat and Maya vase rollouts.
Eco-tourism
Encad wide format printer in FLAAR office, EFI Fiery RIP, laser printer.
Printing Scorpion Constellation deity from throne front, Copan Sculpture Museum
El Carmen, Hotel

El Peru Mayan ruins (Waka'), how to drive there from Flores (San Benito)
Ermitaño barbudo, Threnetes ruckeri
Epson ink jet printer, fade test (color fades quickly; we do not recommend Epson printers).
Problems, shortcomings, and excessive cost of ink and media of Epson 1520.
Etapas de Desarrollo de Theobroma bicolor
Ethnobotany in Chisec
Ethno-botany of flowers sacred to the Maya
Ethnohistory, of the Lacandon Maya
Eumomota superciliosa, turquoise-browed Motmot

FLAAR Mesoamerica
Flatbed scanners to scan 35mm slides and photographs

Ficus trees, amate bark paper
Fideo, Cuscuta corymbosa
Fish of Guatemala, Q'eqchi' Mayan, Spanish, English dictionary translations
Firecracker, Justicia spicigera

GCC black and white laser printers for reproducing exhibit quality photographs
Gitzo G1348 carbon fiber mountaineer tripod
Glossary, Maya, Mayan, Mesoamerica
GPS Geo-Tagging
Grass for straw thatching of Mayan domestic houses

Haematoxylum campechianum, Palo de Campeche, Palo de tinto, logwood
Heliconia leaves wrap tamales and used as roof thatch in Guatemala
Herpetotheres cachinnans
Hero twins
Blom Plate
Hewlett-Packard DesignJet printers...print 36 inches wide, full color, in your own office.
Printing colorful posters with a wide format printer (textile prints)
Honduran fruit-eating bat, Artibeus inopinatus, Murciélago frugívoro hondureño
Honey bract, Renealmia alpinia
Hotels, recommended hotels in Guatemala
Hotel in Antigua, entry || hotel room || view from room || general view || hotel grounds || grounds B || hotel bungaloo row
Hotels in Lake Atitlan, Panjachel area
Hotel Villa Santa Catarina, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala
Posada Schumann, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala
Hotel Terrazas del Lago, San Antonio Palopo, Sololá, Guatemala
San Tomas Bella Vista, Santa Catarina Palopo, Sololá, Guatemala
Hotels Boutique
Hotel Villa Grande, Chichicastenango
Hotels in Guatemala City, Hotel Ciudad Vieja, Posada Belen
Hotels in Santa Elena, central Peten (Flores, Tikal, San Benito)
Jaguar Inn hotel, Santa Elena, Peten
Hotels en route to Tikal National Park (Hotel Villa Maya, STP travel agency)
Flores, Tikal area
Hotels, recommended hotels in Honduras
Hotel Los Jaguares, Copan
Hotel don Udo's
Hotel El Carmen
Hotel Ecolodge El Sombrero, Lake Yaxha, Peten
Hotel Jaguar Inn Santa Elena
Hotel Jaguar Inn Tikal
Hotel La Casa de Don David
Hotel Las Gardenias
Hostal Hermano Pedro
Hotel Santana
Hotel Patio Grande
Hotel Posada Caribe
Hotel Guayacan
Hotel Jungle Lodge
Hotel Tz' Alam Ha'
Hunting, deer
Hunting iconography
Hura crepitans

Icaco, Coccoloba uvifera
Iconography (see "Maya iconography")
Iconography, deer, hunting, sacrifice, sex

Insects were domesticated by the Maya: bess, cochineal and niij.
Isote treeYucca elephantipes

Jade art
Jazmín de monte, Renealmia alpinia
Jaguar Inn, Tikal National Park (Peten, Guatemala) (for other hotels nearby see www.maya-art-books.org)
Jaguar Inn, a clean and safe budget hotel in Santa Elena
Jengibre de jardín, Renealmia alpinia
Jícara

Kaidan, QTVR object rigs (see also QTVR, VR Toolbox and other appropriate entries)
K’ekchi’ (Q’eqchi’) Mayan words for Birds
K'ekchi' (Q'eqchi) Mayan words for Fish and Shellfish
K'ekchi' (Q'eqchi) Mayan language words for mammals
Kodak Photo CD, why you should avoid this; never have your slides done on Kodak Photo CDs.
Konica Minolta 3D scanner

 Lacandon bibliography: Yucatec Lacandon and Chol(ti) Lacandon
 Lacquer-like material from the insect niij, used by the Maya of Guatemala and Mexico.
Laughing Falcon, Herpetotheres cachinnans, featured in Popol Vuh saga.
Las Guacamayas Biological Station, Peten, Guatemala

 Las Guacamayas Biological Station, how to drive there from Flores (San Benito)
Laser vrs. Inkjet.
Laser Printer Reviews.
Laser printers (see also, Lexmark).
GCC 11x17 oversize monochrome laser printers.
Color laser printers, 11x17, full-bleed, tabloid color laser printers.
Tally 11x17 color laser printers.
Lectures
Maya at the Playa
Maya at the Playa 2010
Sacred flowers, 4-petaled flowers,
 Lacquer-like material from the insect niij, used by the Maya of Guatemala and Mexico
Laurel
Lexmark Optra 1275n, color laser printer; sample of print quality on Weyerhaeuser paper.
Black and white laser printer (Lexmark Optra N monochrome laser printer).
Lexmark Optra R black and white laser printer.
Lighting (see photography lighting)
Links; links to Maya vase rollouts; index of links to www.maya-art-books (new_N_files_1999)
Livingston Municipio, Departamento Izabal, Guatemala, Central America Cueva del Tigre, Jaguar Cave, Aldea Plan Grande Tatin
Logwood, palo de tinto, palo de Campeche, Haematoxylum campechianum
Loroco, Fernaldia pandurata

Macaws, Parrots and macaws in Mayan sculpture
Macaw iconography
Magnolia is flavoring for cacao, and is medicinal
Macuses, Calathea macrosepala
Malanga, Xanthosoma sagittifolium (native) and Colocasia esculenta (not native)
Manioc
Manitas tree, Chiranthodendron pentadactylon
Mapuey, Dioscorea trífida
Maya archaeology and artifacts
Directory of museums of Maya art and archaeology in Guatemala
Pre-Columbian antiquities in the exhibits inside the Posada Belen
Mayan calendar and Mayan 2012 end of the world predictions
Maya ceramic art (see also "Maya vase rollouts" and also "Museo Popol Vuh")
Protoclassic bowl in snail shape, Museo Carlos Pellicer
Mammiform tetrapod (previously unpublished, to be in Hellmuth's new book)
Chama, regional style of Highland Guatemalan polychrome ceramics
Codex Style pot
Early Classic cache vessel
Maya ceramic sequence, example of Tzakol art
Mayan ceramic art, pottery burial urns at Popol Vuh Museum
Mayan epigraphy, primary standard sequence
Mayan iconography,Squash flowers and the squash vine
Mayan languages, Ixil
Maya Architecture
Maya vase rollout, Castillo Bowl, high resolution
Maya Ethnobotany
Achiote (Bixa orellana), annotto or annatto
Guicoy, squash, ayote, calabaza, pumpkin
Incense and other sacred resins
Lectures on Mayan ethnobotany
Mayan incensarios with ceiba tree spikes
Sacred copal pom Maya incense
Mayan ethno-botany as related to iconography
Maya Ethnozoology
Maya ethnozoology, especially of Peten, Guatemala, Belize, and Mexico
Feline spots, Maya iconography
Maya Ethno-zoology, intro
Maya iconography, especially as seen on polychrome vases and bowls
Blom Plate
Iconography of plants and animals
Deity iconography (see also "deities, pantheon...")
Females, women in Maya art
Castillo Bowl, 14 foot long rollout; detail of one of the figures, bat-man
Chama, rollout of an all-glyph bowl
Curly Face pot, on the turntable, with the rollout equipment in position
"Digital radar" to see through one paint layer to reveal detail below, rollout of incised vase
Two panels from a Tiquisate cylindrical tripod showing Curly Face (closeup detail)
Black-and-white rollouts from Lexmark laser printer (same image but larger)
Detail of rollout of Red Band Tepeu 1 bowl
Close-up detail of anthropomorphic flower (unpublished elsewhere)
Fine line incised vase shown in two rollout views from Adobe Photoshop, printed on GCC laser printer
Highland Maya vase rollout showing stylized toads or frogs (Museo Popol Vuh) on GCC printer.
Hun Hunahpu on gourd tree (here generally considered a cacao tree)
Links to Maya vase rollouts
Nebaj bowl, rollout, Museo Popol Vuh
PSS on inside of plate
Rollout of a Codex Style pot (unpublished elsewhere)
Rollout of the Paddler Gods, Museo Popol Vuh; detail of black paddler vase
Rollouts of two different Maya vases each with a different form of the Mat motif
Rollouts of two different vases which picture females, women in Maya art
Rollouts of two related Early Classic vessels
Tepeu 3 Terminal Classic, complex sceen rolled out plus pot from Museo Popol Vuh
Various rollouts of Maya vases including one from Museo Popol Vuh
Wide format ink jet prints of Maya rollouts
medicinal spice, Chiranthodendron pentadactylon, canac, canak, manitas
Merremia tuberosa
Mesoamerica, also differences beween Maya and Mayan
Mesoamerica for archaeologists vs Mesoamerica defined by botanists
Mexican honeysuckle, Justicia spicigera

Nebaj bowl, rollout, Museo Popol Vuh
Newberry Library, Chicago
Niij, Achi Mayan language for scale insect used for varnish, Llaveia axin.
Ñame blanco, Dioscorea trífida

Objet Geometries, 3D rapid prototyping for architectural models and archaeology
Olmec art, Museo Carlos Pellicer (state anthropology museum of Tabasco)
Enlargement of Olmec mini-scepter
Enlarged view of Olmec figure with cleft head (possibly burnt jade)
Both Olmec figures in the Museo Carlos Pellicer

Palm thatch, Sabal mexicana, in Canal de Chiquimulilla area, Monterrico, Guatemala
Palma real, local name for Sabal mexicana, in Canal de Chiquimulilla area, Monterrico, Guatemala
Palo de sangre, Virola guatemalensis

Q’eqchi’ (K’ekchi’) Mayan words for Birds
Q'eqchi' (K'ekchi') Mayan language words for mammals
Q'eqchi' (K'ekchi') Mayan words for Fish and Shellfish
Quiche urns, on image menu for Museo Popol Vuh; jaguar and skull Quiche urn; skull closeup
Quararibea funebris.
QTVR gateway (see also Kaidan, VR Toolbox, and other QTVR entries)
Aguateca QTVR
Yaxha QTVR
Copan QTVR
Tiquisate incense burner, various versions

Rabinal
Rabinal, Baja Verapaz, Guatemala, where niij insects are raised still today
Rapid Prototypers
Restaurant, Tortas Mila
Rollouts (see "Maya vase rollouts")
Rollouts, Castillo Bowl, Museo Popol Vuh, enlarged views
Rollout drawings of Tzakol and Tepeu ceramic vases, bowls, plates
Rubber ballgame, vulcanizing native Mayan Castilla elastica rubber
Rucker’s hermit, Threnetes ruckeri

Sabal Sabal mexicana, house thatch, in Canal de Chiquimulilla area, Monterrico, Guatemala
Sacred Flowers
Santa Rosa Xtampak, a Chenes style Maya archaeological site
Salt sources, Sacapulas, Quiche
Los Sapos, bedrock outcrop, toad and crocodile, Copan, Honduras
Scanners, flatbed scanners, 35mm slide scanners,
Seagrape, Sea-grape, Coccoloba uvifera
What is wrong with theKodak Photo CD for 35mm slides?
Scitex, high-end scanners, ideal for slide archives/photo archives
Scitex EverSmart, professional flatbed scanner
Scanner software evaluations
SilverFast can help scan decades old 35mm color slides, here corbal vault under stairway
Sinar Bron 4x5 camera, the camera used by professional photographers
Snails (freshwater)
Software at super cheap prices, for students and faculty
Sponsors, corporate sponsors, corporate benefactors, companies which have provided products
Spineless yuccaYucca elephantipes
Squash flowers and the squash vine, Mayan iconography
Stone types used by the Classic Maya;Volcanic Pumise,
Suco, Calathea macrosepala
Support Maya Archaeology
Stick yuccaYucca elephantipes
Sweet bract, Renealmia alpinia
Sweet potato, Ipomoea batatas, edible root crop
Symposiums

Tabaco cimarrón, Wigandia urens (Ruiz & Pav.) Kunth.
Tally color laser printers (regular size and tabloid sized)
Tally 11x17 color laser printer setup at Francisco Marroquin University
Tamale wrap, heliconia leaves
Tapir, Tapirus bairdii
Tepeu 1 and Tepeu 2 vases, bowls plates, Maya vase rollout drawings
Tikal ruins, El Peten
Tips and suggestions how to improve photography in archaeology and art history
Taro, Xanthosoma sagittifolium
Thatching material of grass, not palm fronds
Thatch for Mayan house architecture,Carludovica palmate
Thatch for Mayan house architecture
Thatch for Mayan house architecture, Corozo Palm
Thatch being dried for Mayan house architecture
Theobroma bicolor, Etapas de Desarrollo
Thesis topics on Mesoamerican cultures
Tiquisate, a non-Maya area of the Costa Sur of Guatemala, Dept. of Escuintla
Ballgame decapitation scenes, Museo Popol Vuh
Ballgame decapitation similar to pot in Museo Popol Vuh
Curly Face, part of the Tiquisate Trinity (not to be confused with Palenque Triad)
The actual Curly Face pot, on the turntable, with the rollout equipment in position
Closeup detail of Curly Face panel from a Tiquisate cylindrical tripod
Tiquisate incensario printed with ColorSpan HiFi 8-color wide format printer
Supports of cylindrical tripods, decorated with designs often in local version of Teotihuacan content
Two interesting large Tiquisate cylindrical tripods at the Posada Belen museum
Tiquisate ceramic art at the Posada Belen: supports of cylindrical tripods, globular bowl, RE glyph on cylindrical tripod, candeleros.
Teotihuacan-style temple effigy completely preserved, in Guatemala
Late Tiquisate vase with the typical dark red color favored in Escuintla (vase pictures a late form of Tlaloc)
Rollout of diagonal monster on a cylindrical tripod
Owls in Teotihuacan murals and Maya art
Toad sculpture, bedrock outcrop, Los Sapos, Copan, Honduras
Tobacco, as a dye colorant for Mayan clothing
Tortas Mila, Restaurant
Tree spinach, Cnidoscolus aconitifolius
Trompetilla, Justicia spicigera
Tripa de pollo, Cuscuta corymbosa
Tzakol 3 cylindrical tripods, drawings of hieroglyphs

Uaxactun, El Peten
Uva de mar, uva caleta, Coccoloba uvifera

Varnish, from an insect, niij, Achi Mayan language for Llaveia axin scale insect used for varnish
Volunteer
Volunteer opportunities at the Museo Popol Vuh and FLAAR Digital Imaging Center to students who are seriously interested in archaeology and/or digital imaging technology, and volunteers to assist in research on Maya art, especially iconography and hieroglyphic inscriptions
VR Toolbox, ObjectWorx, SceneWorx, PanoWorx, software for QTVR

Waka' (El Peru), how to drive there from Flores (San Benito), via Paso Caballos

Webmaster, information on this site, miscellaneous philosophy
Weyerhaeuser paper arriving in FLAAR office
Weyerhaeuser paper used for color laser prints
Wide format printers (large format ink jet color printers)
Media, American Ink Jet Corporation, office in Europe
aminating wide format prints makes them look better in addition to protecting them
Wigandia urens (Ruiz & Pav.) Kunth.
Wisner 4 x 5 inch, large format portable camera

Yam, Dioscorea trífida
Yuca
Yautia, Xanthosoma sagittifolium
Yaxlik Cave, Alta Verapaz

Z-Corporation Spectrum Z510 System color 3D rapid prototyper