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...John Campbell Merriam, president of the Carnegie Institution at Washington, who directs excavations in Mexico and the Southwest, had asked Col. Lindbergh to make the pictures at Pecos near Santa Fe. The request followed the flyer's telling the doctor with awe of a Mayan temple city he had accidentally seen last February while flying over Quintana Roo, jungle- covered Mexican territory. Two green eyes had seemed staring up at him from among the trees. He flew lower. The eyes became pools before a pyramid temple. Tumbled around were the ruins of a city approximately eight miles in diameter...
...building indigenous to its time and place. Its dun-colored masses are simple-a great flat base; a slim domed tower which rises more than 400 ft. In style it is mysterious-something of vanished Assyrian strongholds; something of Byzantine vaults, domes and mosaic ornament; something of simple Mayan massiveness. Perhaps the style is best called Nebraskan. The history
...group left New York yesterday under the auspices of the department of Tropical Medicine of the Medical School on an expedition to Yucatan which may bring forth new light upon the Mayan civilization. The Carnegie Foundation of Washington has also appropriated funds for the expedition, and will bear a part of the expense...
...collections, the Peabody Museum stands today in a class by itself among the anthropological museums of the country, and is certainly one of the great museums of the world in this department of science. Its collection of North American archaeology and ethnology is unrivalled. Its Central American, Mayan, Mexican, and Peruvian collections are large and of the first quality. Thanks to the efforts of Alexander Agassiz and others, its Polynesian collection, from the islands of the Pacific, is unusually large and full. The European collection, though far from complete, is the best in this country. In African ethnology...
Sapeloe Island, eight miles by four, lies between Brunswick and Savannah, close to the marsh-fringed mainland. Originally it belonged to the Creek Indians, whose ancestors left trinkets and earthworks showing they were influenced by the Mayan culture of distant Yucatan...