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...home on the top of an open-deck bus at the end of each visit." He was affected by all-Egyptian, Sumerian. Etruscan, archaic Greek, Norman, Romanesque, and especially by the art of ancient Mexico. One of his first reclining women (1929) is an unabashed descendant of the ancient Mayan Chac-Mool, which Moore saw only as an illustration in a German magazine at the British Museum...
ARCHAEOLOGY holds no more compelling mystery than that of the Olmec Indians, who ruled the Gulf coast of Mexico even before the time of Christ. The well-known Mayan, Toltec and Aztec civilizations all stemmed from the Olmec culture, but their parent culture remains almost totally unknown. Practically all science has to go on is works of art dug from the jungle ground...
...Waterbibber. With this vision to inspire him, Soustelle has brought to his new job all the fierce energy he once devoted to political maneuvers. His appointments (ten a day) begin soon after breakfast, among fine Aztec and Mayan treasures in his book-lined apartment on Paris' elegant Avenue Henri-Martin. By 10 o'clock he is in the office, and he often lunches there, washing his meals down with water. ("You see in me," he chuckles, "one of the rare Frenchmen who do not like wine.") Dinner, too, and often evenings are apt to be business affairs, after...
...collection is of absolutely top importance to the graduate student. He must be ablt to get these specimens quickly and be able to inspect them himself, without having to peer through a glass case. The storage of our potsherds, say, is equally as important as the exhibition of a Mayan sculpture...
...floor and the third floor. These should serve as models for all future changes. The cases are lit from inside by good strong spotlighting; their labels are clear and consise, and informative essays are conveniently placed. They are admirably anthropological in nature: the viewer really gets an idea of Mayan culture after studying the exhibit...