Carpenter/Cabinet Maker © Marilyn Anderson. Woodcut, 8″ x 10″
Maya carpenters and cabinetmakers are often generalists whose skills often allow them to make doors and traditional furniture as well as carved artistic decorative figures. Large numbers of Maya men can do some carpentry or make furniture and several towns such as Totonicapán and Nahualá have special renown for their furniture making and wood carving. Maya and non-Maya (Ladino) artisans work in centers such as Antigua and often make elaborate colonial style pieces of many kinds.