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Biologia Centrali-Americana, or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America (1889)

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.) · London : Published for the editors by R.H. Porter ... and Dulau & Co. · leaf 47

An illustration from Biologia Centrali-Americana, or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America, 1889, leaf 47
feet wide and was probably covered with a vaulted roof. In front of the e2 BOEEATJ OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY* 1899LIBEABY 2S COPAN. doorway leading to the inner chamber is a step (A-B) 2 feet high and 15 feet long,carved on its face with hieroglyphs and skulls (Plate XVI.). At each end of this stepis a… … liu =25 ft figures of a cornice which runsover the doorway. About 4feet above the floor in each /of the two positions marked J .X a stone in the masonry ofthe wall is pierced by a holethrough which a rope could be passed, and holes may also be noticed above thehieroglyphs on the step, which were…

Mayas · Indians of Mexico · Indians of Central America · Inscriptions, Mayan · Maya calendar

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