Guatemala, Cooking in the open

 

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)

c. 1950  

color softground etching, drypoint & aquatint 

8 3/4 x 6 3/8" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

2 of 100  

none 

 

fine ivory, simile-vellum wove 

published 

artist 

DASL134 

$450.00 

Wood fire cooking is used both indoors and out-of-doors in Guatemala. The most common cooking method used by the indigenous Mayan women is the centuries old “three-stone stove”. It is basically a campfire with three supports for the cooking utensils. The woman in this scene appears to be making tortillas.