Copal
- Museum number:
- 3-23760
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21030023760
- Accession number:
- Acc.2505
- Description:
- Copal; bundle of cakes wrapped in palm leaf strips; length of bundle 34 cm.
- Donor:
- Julius Stephen Kassovic
- Collection place:
- Chichicastenango, Quiché, Guatemala
- Culture or time period:
- Maya
- Collector:
- Julius Stephen Kassovic
- Collection date:
- January 1968
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Accession date:
- 1969
- Context of use:
- Used by Mayas: burned outside churches and in front of Mayan and Christian effigies; also used with Mayan "god pots
- Department:
- Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
- Legacy documentation:
-