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Maya art

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

[Mexican Watercolors]

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT.oversize-Ayer-Art-Seymour
Abstract

Collection of seven watercolors and one drawing of the ancient Maya cities of Chichén Itzá and Uxmal, both located in the Yucatán Peninsula region of southeastern Mexico, by the artist Ralph Fletcher Seymour. These watercolors provide detailed depictions of the buildings found within these ancient Maya sites.

Dates: approximately 1909

[Photographs of Quiriguá]

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT.oversize-Ayer.Art-Photographs.of-Quirigua
Abstract

Nine black-and-white photographic prints of the Mayan ruins at Quiriguá, Guatemala in the Motagua Valley. Depicted are eight steles, pillar-like carved slabs of stone, and one zoömorph. The photographs are signed "Janette W. Dixon." The photographer remains unknown. The photographs are undated, but were a gift of Janette Dixon of Chicago from May 29, 1946.

Dates: approximately 1920-1946