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...University of Mexico was founded many years before Henry Hudson ever saw Manhattan Island. There is hardly a Mexican town that does not possess some church or other building that illustrates the stately architecture of the Spanish period and back of that are the wonderful relics of Aztec and Mayan architecture which was in full flower centuries before the Spanish...
Also a free lecture tonight, the "great civilization evolved by the Mayan Indians of Central America before the coming of European settlers to the western hemisphere" will be outlined by Alfred M. Tozzer '00, professor of Anthropology, in the Geographical Institute at 8 o'clock...
Most striking in the collection is a series of brilliant reproductions of Mayan pottery, done in water colors by Tejeda, a native Guatamalan of the expedition. The Guatamalan government allows none of the originals to be taken from the country...
Guatemala. In the ruins of the Mayan city of Piedras Negras, an expedition headed by Dr. J. Alden Mason of Philadelphia's University Museum found a rectangular limestone carving in high relief which showed plainly that the unknown sculptor had a sense of humor, at least of satiric portraiture. The block, 49 in. long, was called a lintel, although its scanty margins indicated that it was used not over a doorway but as a wall tablet. Parts of the carving were effaced, but by squeezing every available clue Miss M. Louise Baker, experienced archeological artist, was able to make...
...lintel appears to depict a ceremonial harangue by a Mayan chieftain, sitting cross-legged on an altar and flanked by bowls of fruit. Artist Baker interprets the scene thus: The two standing figures at extreme left, paying no attention, are absorbed in their own argument, while the next man indignantly nudges one of them with his hip. The first seated figure on the left is delicately poking the back of the man in front to ask what is going on, and the latter is trying to see over the towering headdress of the fat man in front...