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Canek: historia de un héroe maya
Canek: historia de un héroe maya
Canek: historia de un héroe maya

Canek: historia de un héroe maya

Dateca. 1975
Mediumlithograph on paper
Dimensions17 × 22 1/8 in. (43.2 × 56.2 cm)
ClassificationsPrints & Printmaking
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Diane Palley
Object numberPC2020.34.179
DescriptionPoster with an illustration of a Maya rain god Chaac, here depicted holding a machine gun. Text at left presents an excerpt from "Canek: historia de un héroe maya" (1979) by Mexican author and journalist Ermilo Abreu Gómez. "Canek" refers to Maya revolutionary Jacinto Canek, who led a rebellion against the Spanish in Yucatán in 1761.
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