Identifier: biologiacentrali01maud (find matches)
Title: Biologia Centrali-Americana, or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Maudslay, Alfred Percival, 1850-1931 Goodman, J. T Godman, Frederick Du Cane, 1834-1919 Salvin, Osbert, 1835-1898 Greve, W., lithographer Griggs, William, 1832-1911 Hunter, Ada Purkiss, W., lithographer Shawe, W Sweet, H. N. (Henry N.)
Subjects: Mayas Indians of Mexico Indians of Central America Mayas Indians of Mexico Indians of Central America Inscriptions, Mayan Maya calendar
Publisher: London : Published for the editors by R.H. Porter ... and Dulau & Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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. PhoLno^avu^cC•c^upilEitmpBouM:o(^.Valajior^&Cl-,, Part of the Pace of a Step from tee Hieroglyphic Stairway. (No. 27, Plate I.) COPAN.
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Stone Mask feom Mexico, now in the Bbitish Museum. Description of Stelae axd Altars. The monolithic monuments at Copan are cut from a somewhat decomposed trachyterock ; for convenience of description they may be divided into Stelae and Altars. On the front of each Stela, and in some cases on both front and back, is a representationof an elaborately decorated human figure. On the back (when it is not occupied by afigure), and in some instances on both back and sides, is a hieroglyphic inscription.The design is sometimes completed by the addition of scroll-work derived from the formof the feathered serpent to which is added a number of small human and grotesque figures. The ornamentation throughout the sculptures is no doubt to a great extent symbo-lical, and in the decoration of the Stelse more attention appears to have been given to the display of such ornamentation than to securing correct proportion in the represen- biol. oestr.-amer., Archaeol., November 1890. / 34 COPAN. tation of

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