A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . CO i 0) <^ 33 HO H ffiO. — ^ rt 111 § — (L S ° ^ - IJ S C »J s^ G K S ^j M oj to — [o ca ce ^ =« X 5 j- = CU •- f-i fH i:^ o o <Li rt •^ t- t- ^ MEXICO extensive stone stnutures with a mixture ofiulobe buildings, tiio ibrnier elaborately orna-mented with giometriial designs. Humanfigures and animal forms, so abundant fnrthersouthward, arc absent. Saville, however,ascribes the ]\Iitla structures, not to the Za|)o-tecs, but to a tribe of NahuatI stock ; that is,allied to the Aztecs. The stone w-alls are
A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . CO i 0) <^ 33 HO H ffiO. — ^ rt 111 § — (L S ° ^ - IJ S C »J s^ G K S ^j M oj to — [o ca ce ^ =« X 5 j- = CU •- f-i fH i:^ o o <Li rt •^ t- t- ^ MEXICO extensive stone stnutures with a mixture ofiulobe buildings, tiio ibrnier elaborately orna-mented with giometriial designs. Humanfigures and animal forms, so abundant fnrthersouthward, arc absent. Saville, however,ascribes the ]\Iitla structures, not to the Za|)o-tecs, but to a tribe of NahuatI stock ; that is,allied to the Aztecs. The stone w-alls are 4Cto 48 inches thick, and the adobe about thesame. The former are of roughly brokenstones laid in an abundance of adobe mor-tar, the outside being sheathed with sl;il»containing the ornamentation. Saville recentlyfound in this district a new form of hieroglyphand also many mounds with sepulchral stonechambers containing elaborate terra cotta .jarsabout LA feet high, modelled in human shajie,and also some full-sized human figures in hol-low earthenware, one being centimetersin height, or a
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