 Pirograbados (Branded with Hot Iron Work) Deep in the South part of Mexico, where the thick jungles are, lies the Chiapas. Chiapas is a place untouched by modern progress and rich in its' beautiful natural enviroment. In those thick jungles lies, Palenque, the ancient religous city of the Mayans. The Art that you are viewing here is done by branding a hot iron on leather and then painted by hand to perfection. The paintings on this leather represents images of Pakal, ancient King of Palenque, his mother, Queen and his son, Chambalun in different events that took place in this early culture. These images are represented in frescosint the different pyramids that you can see in Palenque. All these paintings are replicas of actual paintings in found in different pyramids of Palenque in Chiapas. | 
