Drew Honduras Project
Pictures -- May-June, 2001 
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Copán
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La Colonia Episcopal Images of La Colonia's Children Drew Students at Work at La Colonia 
El Hogar de Amor y Esperanza Images of El Hogar's Children Drew Students at Work at El Hogar
General views of Honduras Pictures from Copán  The Drew Honduras Project



Antonio Riveras ("Tony Rivers") most famous tour guide (speaks 19 languages & makes very bad jokes)

Antonio pointing out details

teaching us to read the symbols and numbers 

A Copán parakeet

Flamboyant tree

Rear of the ball court  and courtyard entrance

The main courtyard with monuments

A stone for sacrifice (grove for blood)

The back of the ball court from the main courtyard

The ball court (with Wilbert Marte posing)

The ball court (the opposite side)

The jaguar on top of the hill

looking out of Copán from beside the jaguar

The view behind the jaguar (another courtyard)

the far side of that courtyard

the view from further around the wall

yet another courtyard (and tunnel entrance)

Entrance to a dwelling (note the brickwork)

tree roots mingle with stone steps

in the main courtyard

an unexcavated mound

and another

The museum entrance

Eagle heads (protected by the museum)

Carvings on the side of a dwelling (museum)

Carvings reveal the scribe's house

Amazing carved faces

cute?

Old man's head

A frog

Elizabeth Salazar by a reproduction of the temple (museum)

How the carvings would have looked to the people of Copán
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The whole temple

Another dwelling 

Fish eating bird

Face

Figure on the main staircase
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Making souvenirs --using soot from the bus tail pipes as dye!

All laid out to dry and sell to unsuspecting tourists (like us)

The group poses with Antonio Riveras



These photographs are the property of Sandra Jamieson. [c. 2001]
Those associated with the Drew Honduras Project are welcome to copy and use these images;
others must ask my permission, please (sjamieso@drew.edu).  Thanks!
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