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Teaching resource on Maya clothing styles for Mexicolore

RESOURCE: Maya clothing styles illustrated

We’re sincerely grateful to Daniel Parada for producing specially for us this beautifully illustrated guide to (Classic Period) Maya clothing styles, showing in simple terms the range of styles for both men and women. A free A4 print copy of this resource will be given to each school that our teaching team visits...

Read the intriguing background to Daniel’s work in our ‘Aztec Inspiration’ section - follow the link below (to follow).

This article was uploaded to the Mexicolore website on Sep 22nd 2019

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