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National Geographic : 1925 Jan
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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE Photograph from the Carnegie Institution PAST AND PRESENT Two hundred thousand Maya toil for foreign masters to-day in the henequen fields of Yucatan, all memory of their former magnificence gone as completely as if it had never been. Their wants are few and easily filled: simple food-tortillas, black beans, squash, chile-and tobacco; cotton stuff to make the shirts and pantaloons for himself and his son and for the huipils of his wife and daughter; anisette by way of a celebration on feast days, and he is as happy as he can be under masters not wholly of his own blood. But, with such a glorious past, it would seem as though his future might be made of even greater promise than this. With proper educational facilities, with fair agricultural opportunities, with intelligent help over the rough places in the road, he must travel from his own simple past to the complicated world of to-day, and there is every reason to expect that he may again fashion for himself a destiny worthy of his splendid ancestry. a mile square. The other members of the staff, including the writer, in charge of the Chichen Itza Project, Mr. E. H. Morris, archeologist in charge of exca vations, and Mr. Monroe Amsden, as sistant archeologist, reached Chichen Itza the middle of May and excavations were commenced on May 28. In the case of such a large archeologi cal site as this, any excavation program that was not strongly concentrated, and specialized in its direction, would, of necessity, dissipate itself without satisfac tory results, and the work done be lost in that yet to do. WORK BEGINS IN GROUP OF TIlE TIIOU SAND COLUMNS To this end the city was divided into a number of sections, each section char-
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