Jades from the Cenote of Sacrifice, Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Volume 10

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Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 1974 - Nature - 217 pages

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THE MATERIAL
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TECHNIQUES AND STYLES OF CARVING
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Jades from the Cenote of Sacrifice, Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Volume 10
Tatiana Proskouriakoff
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albite apparently assemblages banded bead pl biconical broken buttonlike carved Cenote Chichen Itza chin color complete decorated diameter discs drill holes ear-flares Early Classic earplugs edge eyes figurine flares flat glyph gray green jade grooves Guatemala headdress hieroglyphs hollow human heads incised inscription jade Class jade of Class jadeite Kaminaljuyu La Venta lapidary larger Late Classic Maya lowland mask material Maya inscriptions Mayapan Mesoamerica Miscellaneous motif mouth Nebaj nose number 11 objects oblong beads Olmec opaque ornaments pair Palenque pebbles pectoral perforations petals picture-plaque pieces Piedras Negras pits plain plaque Plate Preclassic probably Puuc rectangles rectangular represent restored rings rosette rosette design round relief scrolls sculpture serpent shaped shows side silhouette-plaques similar small perforations specimens speckled spheroid beads Stela stone style suggests surface technique thick Tikal tion Toltec tubular beads tubular drill Uaxactun unusual varieties workmanship Yucatan zoomorphic

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TitleJades from the Cenote of Sacrifice, Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Volume 10
Volumes 10-11 of Harvard University, Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Jades from the Cenote of Sacrifice, Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Tatiana Proskouriakoff
Volume 10, Issue 1 of Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Memoirs, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, ISSN 0079-029X
Memoirs; V. 10, No. 1
Volume 10, Issue 1 of Peabody Museum Memoirs Series
Volume 10, Issue 1 of Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Memoirs
AuthorTatiana Proskouriakoff
Editionillustrated
PublisherPeabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 1974
Original fromUniversity of Texas
DigitizedMar 27, 2008
ISBN0873656822, 9780873656825
Length217 pages
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