Lacandon Dream Symbolism by Robert H. Bruce

Merna Saliman, president of Maple Woods College, to participate in a Title VI–A Department of Education grant written by the Missouri Community College Association/Missouri Consortium for Global Education. Taken about 1974, the image was of young Chan K'in and K'in-both sons of Chan K'in Viejo-making hu'un. Bruce, which I had discovered in the library of the Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute in Palenque. I found only one photographic reproduction of the Lacandon producing bark cloth, and it was in Lacandon Dream Symbolism by Robert D. After learning of the death in 1996 of Chan K'in Viejo, the Lacandon elder and spiritual leader in Nahá, I became increasingly concerned about the preservation of their traditions and religious practices, especially those that included the production and use of bark cloth.

A tunic (xikul) made from commercial cloth was still being worn by men in the communities of Nahá and Lacanha, and bark-cloth tunics were still occasionally being produced. These ritual implements made of or accessorized with bark cloth included headbands (chäk hu'un), adorned rattles (soot), God Pots (läk-il k?uh), occasionally adorned with headbands, and 'filet' offerings.

Jon McGee's book Life, Ritual and Religion Among the Lacandon Maya, and learned that the Lacandon Maya of Nahá in Chiapas were using bark cloth in their rituals. During the summer of 2000 on a National Endowment for Humanities funded 'Maya World' grant, my personal focus became the Lacandon Maya.

Lacandon Dream Symbolism by Robert H. Bruce