The Composure of the Earth is a Lenca ritual that celebrates a reciprocal pact between the Saints/spirits and humans. The ritual is very complex and includes the sacrifice of chickens or jolotes/turkeys, and the consumption of corn chicha and chilate (a corn porridge with cocoa beans), and the burning of copal, the Mesoamerican incense

In 1891 Honduras granted archaeologists from Harvard’s Peabody Museum a ten-year concession to carryout research in Copán. One byproduct of the agreement is an archive of glass plate negatives that survived over 120 years, documenting Copán prior to its touristification.

Rafael Platero Paz, born in 1898 in Santa Tecla, El Salvador, moved to Honduras in the late 1920s to work as a photographer for the United Fruit Company. The company, based in El Progreso, Yoro, tasked him with capturing photographs of their banana plantations, infrastructure, and workers