Guide leaflet (1901) (14768500195)

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Title: Guide leaflet
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history
Publisher: New York : The Museum
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO



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, MEXICO Unknown culture. This simple and vigorous presentation of a Highland face is characteristic of Xahua stonework. The eyes were probably inlaid with shell and obsidian Guatemala, is another style of Mayasculpture, that of the cities of the Usu-macintla Eiver. Here, at Yaxcliilan andPiedras Xegras, lintels of hard zapotewood or of limestone were adorned byscenes in low relief. Stelae, too, weredecorated in the same manner, and,although some of the relief is very deep,nowhere does it approach sculpture in theround. The finest examples of thisschool come from downstream, at Palen-que. So low is the relief and so firm theline, that the sculpture almost entersinto the realm of drawing and painting.Especially interesting in this Usuma-cintla art is the naturalistic treatment ofthe figures which are framed by the hiero-glyphic text. To the north, in Yucatan, the sculp-tures are largely reduced to theologicalabstractions, wherein the gods are de-picted by a harmonious disposal of their
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SKir.AL. IETKX 1)1 STRICT. (HATKMALA Maya culrnre. Thisdetail fi^.m a stonetime-marker is amagnificent exam-ple of Maya lowrelief carving. Notetlie combination ofnaturalism in thefigure iimper witlithe pure design ofthe disposal of theheaddress and thehieroglyphs. Espe-cially graceful arethe headdress andits pendant plumes.After Maler 1908 VALLEYOF MEXICO.AZTECCULTUKKThis colossal headof the Goddess Co-yolxauhqui in theMexican NationalMuseum is a nias-teri)iec( of High-land art. Comparethe simple strengthof this goddess, de-picted as dead, withthe softer elabora-tion of the Mayacarving above