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 360
irds were doniesticated for thefeathers. This l)iid occurs a.iiain and again in various modi-fications thi-oughout tlie Maya art. The feathers of thequetzal arc the ones usually associated with the serpent,making the rebus, Quetzalcoutl, the feathered serpent, theculture hero of the Xahuas, or… … QUETZAL, TEMPLE OF THE CROSS, PALENQIE. the head-dresses of the priests and warriors, especially thosein the stone carvings. A <piotation has already l)een givenfrom Landa, showing the use made of feathers in the dressof the people. Text fig. 7 shows perhaps the most elalioraterepresentation of…
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