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Dr. Edgar Lee Hewett, first director of the San Diego Museum, selected artist Carlos Vierra, of Santa Fe, New Mexico, to accompany an expedition sponsored by the School of American Archaeology to Central America and Yucatan in the winter of 1913-14.
Vierra made sketches and notes of the six great Maya cities. On the return of the expedition from Central America in the early months of 1914, work was begun on the murals in Santa Fe and pushed to conclusion. Vierra himself installed them in the California Building in the winter of 1914. Each of the six murals, done in oil on canvas, are four by thirteen feet in size.
