Karl Ruppert, 1895-1960

Maya archaeology and Maya archaeologists lost a loyal friend with the death, on November 24, 1960, of Leocadio E. Hopun in El Cayo, British Honduras. In the 1920's and 1930's, when the best means of access to the eastern Peten Department of Guatemala was by way of British Honduras, with equipment and supplies shipped by river from Belize to El Cayo and there transferred to mule trains for the journey into such places as Uaxactun, Tikal, or Naranjo, a key person in every archaeological organization was the expedition's agent in El Cayo. He made all the arrangements and kept a field party's life-lines maintained for the three or four month period in the bush. Leocadio Hopun, by profession an accountant and Cayo businessman, performed in this role of agent with excellence. Efficient, vigilant, he saw to everything. He acted as agent for the Carnegie Institution of Washington during its long program at Uaxactun. Again, after the second war, he served the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University in the same capacity during their surveys and excavations in British Honduras and Guatemala. This is to name only a few of the scientific groups aided by Hopun over a period of almost 40 years. His friends will remember him as a man of keen intelligence, familiar with the country and with its people, and interested in the cause of archaeology. It will be difficult, indeed, to find someone to take his place

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  Don Burgess•Journal of the Southwest•2009

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• Archaeological Reconnaissance in Campeche, Quintana Roo, and Peten. Karl Ruppert and John H. DenisonJr. , (Carnegie Institution of Washington, Publication 543. Washington, 1943.)

  Open Access•Linton Satterthwaite•American Antiquity•1944

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