Mayan Indians

In this broadcast, Gordon Frederick Ekholm, museum archaeologist, and noted architect Frank Lloyd Wright discuss Mayan archaeology and culture while in the museum's Hall of Mexico and Central America. A film depicting ruins and the descendants of the Mayans provides moving portraits of the modern culture, emphasizing the facial similarities between the modern Indians and their ancestors. The film was produced by the United Fruit Company and Willard Pictures, Inc. Models of Mayan architectural forms and styles are examined and discussed. When host Charles Collingwood notes how similar one of Wright's designs (Hollyhock House) is to Mayan architecture, Wright adamantly disagrees and places Collingwood in an unusually humorous situation.