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Tulum Craft Center
Indoor market of handmade jade jewelry, textiles, pottery, and carved wood near the ruins.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Tulum Craft Center follows what lines its shelves: jade pendants, bundles of copal incense, and embroidered huipil dresses, each tied to Maya ritual practice older than the market itself. It traces those materials back to a nineteen ninety-seven healing ceremony and to offerings of jadeite and burnt copal found near a sacred cave called Naj Tunich. Along the way it looks at which traditions, like burning copal before planting season, are still practiced today.
This audio guide was created using AI.