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Observations on Mexican history and archæology, with a special notice of Zapotec remains, as delineated in Mr. J. G. Sawkins's drawings of Mitla .. (1856)

Mayer, Brantz, 1809-1879, Sawkins, James Gay, 1806-1878 · [Washington, Smithsonian Institution] · leaf 25

An illustration from Observations on Mexican history and archæology, with a special notice of Zapotec remains, as delineated in Mr. J. G. Sawkins's drawings of Mitla .., 1856, leaf 25
are masses of stones, (which may have formed parts of similar tumuli), all of which were evidently carefully cut and covered with stucco. In the centre of the area are the remains of the first story or body of the pyramid, which, before its destruction by the neighboring planters, who used the… … Outline of part of Xochicalco.

Zapotec Indians

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