Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Period of Performance

7/1/1985 - 4/30/1987

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$100,000.00 (approved)
$83,500.00 (awarded)


The Maya Image in the Western World

FAIN: GM-22787-85

University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM 87106-3837)
Peter Walch (Project Director: November 1984 to October 1990)

To support an exhibition, catalogue, and related educational programs examininghow artistic representations, scholarly studies, and popular ideas about the ancient Maya varied in focus and content as Western attitudes changed over the last four centuries.