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As a young medical anthropologist, Dr. Ablon went on to work in Amatenango del Valle in Chiapas, Mexico. Jim went down in 1956 to Quirigua, Guatemala, by train, then Tikal by small plane, taking his pictures of Tikal just after the first University of Pennsylvania season at that Guatemalan site had ended. He planned another trip to Mexico in 1960, and made connections through Joan Ablon with Franz and Trudy Blom.