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A study of Maya art, its subject matter and historical development / Herbert J. Spinden ; with a new introd. and bibliography by J. Eric S. Thompson.
Penn Museum Library F1435.3.A7 S75 1975
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spinden, Herbert Joseph, 1879-1967.
- Series:
- Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University ; v. 6.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Maya art.
- Indian art--Mexico.
- Indian art.
- Mexico.
- Indian art--Central America.
- Central America.
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 285 pages, 15 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dover Publications, 1975.
- Summary:
- Landmark classic interprets Maya symbolism, estimates styles, covers ceramics, architecture, murals, stone carvings as art forms. Over 750 illustrations.
- Notes:
- Originally published in 1913 by the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., as v. 6 of its Memoirs.
- Based on the author's thesis, Harvard, 1909.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages [263]-276.
- ISBN:
- 0486212351 :
- OCLC:
- 1899942
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