This brief review of some of the cultural traditions of Pokomam (Mayan) Indians and Ladinos (mainly Mestizo practitioners of a rural version of modern Latin American culture), living together in a town in Eastern Guatemala, is followed by an analysis of thirty Rorschach test records of the Ladino group. Some of the tendencies indicated by the results are toward a constricted outlook on life, smothering of spontaneity, emotional shallowness, refusal to face anxiety-arousing

situations, low intellectual productivity, narrow interests, and high stereotypy. These findings are related to the cultural patterns described in the introduction. The reasoning and concepts used in the test analyses follow those advanced by Klopfer. Although the translation of statistical findings into dynamic formulations is often questionable, the findings themselves are significant.