. Bulletin. Ethnology. JLTskcfurie?]eiZer' EXCAVATIONS AT LA VENTA, TABASCO, 1955 211. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 cms. Figure 62.—Plaque No. 1. Hachured areas are sculptured out; lower margin broken or eroded. have no idea of the original location of this specimen, nor do we know how it was used. It could very easily have been set into the clay of the structure as a sort of architectural ornament, similar to those em- bedded in the walls of the Palace corridors at Palenque. In the fill, immediately overlying the olive clay envelope of the jaguar mask mosaic in structure A-l-e, we found a small broken sto
. Bulletin. Ethnology. JLTskcfurie?]eiZer' EXCAVATIONS AT LA VENTA, TABASCO, 1955 211. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 cms. Figure 62.—Plaque No. 1. Hachured areas are sculptured out; lower margin broken or eroded. have no idea of the original location of this specimen, nor do we know how it was used. It could very easily have been set into the clay of the structure as a sort of architectural ornament, similar to those em- bedded in the walls of the Palace corridors at Palenque. In the fill, immediately overlying the olive clay envelope of the jaguar mask mosaic in structure A-l-e, we found a small broken stone figure which had represented a kneeling personage (fig. 63). The figure, made of a coarse, granular basalt, was approximately 7 inches tall. The head was broken off before it was deposited in the fill where we found it, and it showed signs of being considerably weathered. The proportions of the figure are somewhat crudely por- trayed. It is quite wide through the shoulders and quite thick so it has a pot-bellied appearance. There is a large shallow depression on the front of the belly which may have been intended to represent a concave mirror worn as an ornament. The back shows some sug-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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