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[Yucatec Mayan language posters].
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Title:

[Yucatec Mayan language posters]

Creator/Contributor:

Vázquez Gómez, Patricia, creator.

Creator/Contributor:

Tene'kin tanik maaya

Abstract:

Four posters, each printed with a word in the Yucatec Mayan language, along with that word's translation in Spanish and English; each illustrated with an image representing that word.

Date:

2021 (issued)

Contents:

1: Kanan = Cuida y aprecia = Cherish (Shirley Castillo K'u). 2: Náaay = Sueña = Dream (Evelyn K'u Castillo). 3: Óol = Espíritu = Spirit (Ruby Interian). 4: Páajtal = Poder = Power (Diana K'u-Peraza).

Subject:

Maya language -- Posters
Maya (Langue) -- Affiches
Maya language

Note:

Title devised by cataloger.
Posters by teens of Mayan origin living in the Cully neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. Commissioned by artist Patricia Vázquez Gómez, faculty member at Portland State University, for her community art and language project Tene'kin tanik maaya (I speak Mayan).
Back of each poster includes title, artist, date and number. Each print in this collection is no. 1 of an edition of 24.
Purchase from Patricia Vázquez Gómez ; 2022.
Yucatec Mayan language posters, BANC PIC 2022.049, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Type:

graphic
Poster
posters.
screen prints.
Posters.
Screen prints.
Posters.
Screen prints.
Affiches.
Sérigraphies.

Physical Description:

print
4 prints in 1 folder : silk screen? ; sheets 43 x 28 cm

Language:

mul

Origin:

California