PRECLASSIC MAYA REPRESENTATIONS OF XIPE TOTEC AT KAMINALJUYÚ - Arnaud F. Lambert

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Genre : Essais et documents

Publié le : 03/11/2017

Résumé de l'oeuvre :

During a visit to the Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología and La Aurora Park Zoo in Guatemala City in 2008 and 2009, I had the opportunity to observe two related anthropomorphic monuments from Kaminaljuyú – Anthropomorphic Sculpture 61 and Monument 11. Two features immediately stood out in my observations of these sculptures. Both of these sculptures depicted figures holding human femurs and at least one (Anthropomorphic Sculpture 61) was rendered wearing a mask. These features have not been reported elsewhere either in the corpus of monumental art at Kaminaljuyú (see Parsons 1986) or the adjoining Pacific Coast region of Guatemala...