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Cacao Drawing

Your donation is greatly appreciated.

Beneficiary’s name: ChocoGuateMaya

If you donate by check or money order in the United States, please make it out to New Roots Foundation, with a notation “for ChocoGuateMaya” and mail to:

New Roots Foundation
217 N.E. 4th Avenue
Delray Beach, Florida 33483
USA

New Roots is a 501(c)(3) foundation.
All donations are tax-deductible in the United States to the full extent of the law.

You can also deposit your donation in one of ChocoGuateMaya's monetary accounts in Guatemala:

Quetzales:
Banco Agromercantil
ChocoGuateMaya account number 30-2008159-8

Dollars:
Banco Agromercantil
ChocoGuateMaya account number 31-2001122-8

If a wire transfer is more convenient for you, the bank information is as follows:

Bank:
Banco Agromercantil de Guatemala, S.A.
  7ª Avenida 7-30 Zona 9,
Guatemala City, Guatemala, Central America
  Swift: AGROGTGC
   
Beneficiary:
  

Asociación ChocoGuateMaya

  Account number (see above for Quetzales or Dollars)
  7ª Calle Poniente Nº 2-A,
La Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala, Central America
   
Intermediary bank:
  Citibank, N.A., New York, N.Y., United States
    Swift: CITIUS33
    ABA: 021000089

 

One of the most highly valued crops of the Pacific slopes of southern Guatemala was cacao. Representations of cacao are preserverd in ceramics from this region, often in the form of incense burners or lidded cache vessels. This lid is modeled in the form of a young woman who holds a small pot filled with cacao pods. She emerges from a pile of cacao beans, once used as a form of currency.

Censer Lid in Form of Female Holding Cacao
South Coast, Guatemala
AD 250-450
Ceramic
32 x 42 cm
Museo Nacional de Arqueologia y Etnologia, Guatemala City