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Title: Guide leaflet
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history
Publisher: New York : The Museum
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO

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O AX AC A. MI<:XICO Zapotec culture. This olay liKiire in the Oaxaca Museum is a strik-ing example of Central American art. Avhen allowed to express itselfwithout religious symbolism. IMiotograph by Miguel Covarrubias to utilize materials like stone, which re-(piired time to slia;)e. We know on archaeological groundsthat stone sculpture developed later thanclay in tlie Maya and the Mexican regions.While it began like the clay plastic, in theround, it took a somewhat differentcourse. Where clay could be readilyshaped, stone had to h? laboriouslypocked and ground into the desired form.()n the basis of the earliest stone carvingsrecovered from Central American sites,there seems to have been no inheritance
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COPAX. HONDURAS KmfI.v Mnyn ciiUnro. One of tlio best oxamplts of Maya sciilptiiro is tliis magnifioent limestone lead in tlu Teabody Mnseuni. Compare it witli tlie racial types shown on pa?:es 35 and ;)!). Tins photograph and that on tho opposite page are by Dr. Clarence Kennedy 40

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