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...well known to those who have been following the excavation work in Yucatan, that Dr. Morley is one of the most distinguished archaeologists now working in the Maya field...
This gave them an opportunity to look over Cozumel, island off the coast of Yucatan, and to discover, in a cave at Ucul ("hidden water") a shrine to the Mayan rain god, an excellently preserved little building whose stucco, after centuries of exposure, is still white...
Mayan Mosaic (Carnegie Institution). In the "Temple of the Warriors" at Chichenitza, stupendous Mayan ruin in Yucatan, President John Campbell Merriam and Dr. Alfred Vincent Kidder of the Carnegie Institution watched amazed as Earl Morris, their associate on the expedition, scraped away the filth that for centuries had hidden a beautiful mosaic disc containing several hundred pieces of polished turquoise. It had been lying under the carved and painted Mayan altar discovered two years ago and is the "most artistic and elaborate of all known relics of Mayan civilization...
...Yucatan Indians comprising the shipment were, and still are, dead, buried, and mummified. They were bound for the University Museum from their native land, to be set up as curiosities and gazed at by people who have never been mummified...
...Morse '99, purchasing agent for the University, opened negotiations with the Ward Steamship Line for the transportation of the mummified Indians from Yucatan to Cambridge. Mummies were just wasted on the Ward Steamship Line. "Passage costs just $100 per person," they told Mr. Morse...