Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University (1904)
Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Jay I. Kislak Reference Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · Cambridge, Mass. : The Museum · leaf 339
n gran monton de lefia y ponianle fuego. 320 ANIMAL FIGURES IN THE MAYA CODICES little. As in other representations of the crocodile, the lowerjaw does not appear, and even in this dorsal view the artistseems to have deemed it necessary to show the row of teethas if in side view, or as though they… … Fig. 1.TOP OF ALTAR. T. COPAN. Dresden 74 shows an animal which has been considered torepresent a crocodile or alligator but it seems to havemore of the characteristics of a lizard. Figures of a crocodile (Crocodilus americanus) are frequentin the Nuttall Codex, where there is one large figure of…
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