Tortuguero Box

Deployed in close proximity to the small wooden box under glass, the touch screen installation gives visitors the ability to turn and view a 3-D model of the laser scanned artifact from any angle, remove the lid, and see high-resolution photographs of its surfaces. The seventh-century wooden box from the Mayan culture was probably used to house bloodletting implements and other sacrificial paraphernalia. Each side of the box is inscribed with ancient hieroglyphs that visitors can transcribe from side to side—or they can read the entire translation in narrative form. A gallery section of the kiosk features other pre-Columbian artifacts from the same collection.