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Shown below are items associated with Chankin Tercero available without first logging in. This person appears in records from MOA.

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Chankin Tercero, the last man to have the full material knowledge to make traditional Lacandon barkcloth tunics, died of complications relating to diabetes in July 2017. He was survived by his wife, Margarita Nuc and son, Alfonso Tercero Nuc. The family continue to practice ancestral rituals and make ancestral ritual art. They sell jewelry, bark cloth and figurines outside the Palenque archaeological site. Before his death, Chankin made high quality bark cloth for folkloric art competitions with FONART/SEDESOL.

Died: 2017-07