Nature, Power, and Maya Royals: Recent Discoveries from the Site of Buenavista del Cayo is a collaboration between the San Antonio Museum of Art, the Belize Institute of Archaeology, and the University of Texas at San Antonio. This exhibition showcases objects from the Maya Classic period (AD 250–900) discovered at the site of Buenavista del Cayo, Belize. These objects, which are being exhibited for the first time, were recovered in 2014 and 2019 from two royal tombs, one dating to the Early Classic period (ca. AD 450) and one to the Late Classic period (ca. AD 650–750). This exhibition also includes vessels from the SAMA permanent collection, which are put in dialogue with the Buenavista del Cayo objects (Quoted from https://www.samuseum.org/)

 These recordings were made possible by the collaboration between Ph.D. Christian Elguera (Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish) and Chris Torgerson (Tour & Volunteer Coordinator and Museum Educator, SAMA). Thank you to the support of the Department of Languages and the Academic Media Center at St. Mary’s University. The principal goal of this activity was to show to the San Antonio community the value of indigenous cultures today.

Student Participants:

Ana Hernández - Major in Psychology and Criminology. Minor in Spanish

Briana Martinez - Major in Political Science

Diana de Leon - Major in Undecided Business and Spanish

Kimberly Rivera - Major in Interdisciplinary English Language Arts/Reading

 Ana Gabriela Acosta Vargas - Major in Management. Minor in Exercise and Sport Science

 Celeste Pérez González - Major in English and Spanish. Minor in Visual Communication Design

 Ya Pey Hew - Major in International Business Marketing.

Samantha Garza - Major in Spanish

Class professor:

Christian Elguera, Ph.D, Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish, Department of Languages, St.Mary’s University