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Indian notes (1924)

Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, Jay I. Kislak Reference Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · New York : Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation · leaf 187

An illustration from Indian notes, 1924, leaf 187
INDIAN NOTES technique as on the complete statues. It stands today in front of the ruins of the ranch-house at the Finca Arevalo. The crude statue shown in fig. 55, ^, holds a plate across the front of the body, in a manner recalling the Chac Mool figures of Toltec and … Fig. 55. — Crude stone statues from Finca Arevalo, Guatemala. a, M; b, L. (Courtesy of W. H. Holmes) Maya art. In fact, in the Finca Arevalo image we may have the prototype of the Chac Mool, although it lacks the characteristic position of the head and legs, as well as the breast ornament, seen in…

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