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

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...

Arnaud F. Lambert
Onondaga Community College (Syracuse, NY)