Azteca dancer from the group Cetiliztli Nauhcampa performing at a Day of the Dead program in the Museum’s Rotunda, New York.


A-MAIZING FUN DAYS Saturday, Sept. 15 and Sunday, Sept. 16 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with maize and cacao. These two superfoods have roots deep in the culture of Mesoamerica. Learn how Otomi paper figures incorporate maize (corn) and cacao (chocolate) into their harvest celebrations and then make your own Otomi paper figures to take home. Create your own Mayan codex with Evelyn Orantes (Quiche Maya) and participate in creating a mural design painting with Joaquin Newman (Yaqui/Mexica). Explore the depictions of maize and cacao in Mesoamerican art with Carlos Chaclán Solís (Q’eqchi’ Maya). Learn how to make a Huichol yarn painting that


Visitors are invited to paint a cacao mural design with artist Joaquin Newman (Yaqui/Mexica).


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PHOTOS BY 5TH AVENUE DIGITAL FOR SMITHSONIAN’S NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN


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