General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . worth) ofconsiderable attention, since the MiddleAmericans developed this type of work intoa fine art. Especially interesting are the his-torical scries of figurines from the EarlyCulture and Teotihuacan horizons. Theseshow the change in styles in two cultures,over a period of nearly a thousand yearsThe most notable clay sculpture is the lifesize warrior of the Chichimec period of theValley of .Mexico. How ever, for sheer vigorand vitality the large clay figures from West-ern Mexico are preeminent. A profoundgras

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General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . worth) ofconsiderable attention, since the MiddleAmericans developed this type of work intoa fine art. Especially interesting are the his-torical scries of figurines from the EarlyCulture and Teotihuacan horizons. Theseshow the change in styles in two cultures,over a period of nearly a thousand yearsThe most notable clay sculpture is the lifesize warrior of the Chichimec period of theValley of .Mexico. How ever, for sheer vigorand vitality the large clay figures from West-ern Mexico are preeminent. A profoundgrasp of realistic appreciation of humanfeatures is displayed by the Vera Cruz ex-hibit of clay heads, laughing ones from theTotonac area, more serious ones from the A PRIEST MAKING ANOFFERING: a cast of a Maya relief sculpture from Jonuta,Tabasco. Mexico. I he originalof this cast is in the NationalMuseum of Mexico and isone of the finest examples ofthe Palenque style of Mayasculpture. This piece datesfrom the Maya Great Periodin the centuries immediatelypreceding the year K I I i I ~i

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