The tenth family group shows the Maya-Quiche of Guatemala. These people occupy also parts of Chiapas and a small area in western Honduras; at one time they were the most highly cultured of all the native peoples of the Western Hemisphere. They had an artificial basis of food supply, dressed in delicate fabrics, and were capable of erecting vast terraces and stepped pyramids surmounted with buildings adorned with sculptures and paintings. They were of moderate stature, not warlike, but industrial, and the sculptures and paintings revealing their religion are remarkably free from bloody scenes. They number in Central America, at present, several hundreds of thousands. The family group here presented includes the man with staff and bearing a net filled with fruit, one woman working at the mill, a second woman carrying a basket of fruit in her right hand and a gourd bowl in the left, while the girl walks by her mother, and holds it decorated globular, gourd vessel.
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