Enhance your Chakras and hold a special trinket close to your heart with these esquisite one of a kind hand beaded traditional Mayan medicine pouch. These are handbeaded in Guatemala with the utmost traditional artisianal skill that has been passed on for Generations on Generations. A portion of the proceeds helps keep the Mayans gainfully employed doing what they have done for centuries, in their ancestral villages and in their native tongue, so they can go on being "Mayan" for centuries to come. We can help preserve their culture and traditions for future generations Beaded Mayan Jewelry is are made by Mayan women aged 30 to 60. The women have their own businesses, and work out of their homes in western Guatemala as they have always done..