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A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)

Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 525

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According to Bandelier, some of the stonewalls in New Mexico are fiiUy as well laid assome lie examined in niins in the Aztec region.PnMvc.linLr s,,utliward from the old Aztec realm,the ii.\t ini|MMtaut tribe of a dilferent stockwas the Tzajioteci), or Za|)otec, alxiut wherethe i)resent state of… … MEXICO extensive stone structures with a mixture ofadobe buikliugs, the former elaborately orna-mented with geometrical designs. Humanfigures and animal forms, so abundant furthersouthward, are absent. Saville, however,ascribes the Mitla structures, not to the Zapo-tecs, but to a tribe of Nahuatl…

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