. Guide leaflet. TEOTIHUACAN, MEXICO Teotihuacan culture. This crude figure morethan ten feet high represents an early stage instone carving, which seems not to have been de-veloped until long after modeling in clay PUEBLA, MEXICO Unknown culture. This simple and vigorous presentation of a Highland face is characteristic of Xahua stonework. The eyes were probably inlaid with shell and obsidian Guatemala, is another style of Mayasculpture, that of the cities of the Usu-macintla Eiver. Here, at Yaxcliilan andPiedras Xegras, lintels of hard zapotewood or of limestone were adorned byscenes in low
. Guide leaflet. TEOTIHUACAN, MEXICO Teotihuacan culture. This crude figure morethan ten feet high represents an early stage instone carving, which seems not to have been de-veloped until long after modeling in clay PUEBLA, MEXICO Unknown culture. This simple and vigorous presentation of a Highland face is characteristic of Xahua stonework. The eyes were probably inlaid with shell and obsidian Guatemala, is another style of Mayasculpture, that of the cities of the Usu-macintla Eiver. Here, at Yaxcliilan andPiedras Xegras, lintels of hard zapotewood or of limestone were adorned byscenes in low relief. Stelae, too, weredecorated in the same manner, and,although some of the relief is very deep,nowhere does it approach sculpture in theround. The finest examples of thisschool come from downstream, at Palen-que. So low is the relief and so firm theline, that the sculpture almost entersinto the realm of drawing and interesting in this Usuma-cintla art is the naturalistic treatment ofthe f
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