The American Egypt : a record of travel in Yucatan . ut the inside walls of the one on the north-east are ornamented from the floor to where the roof com-mences with that curious decoration which is met with againand again in so many Mayan buildings—the red hand. Itwas the best preserved of this kind of decoration we hadseen in the islands or on the mainland, and by the curiousformation of some of the marks it is certain that they werenot, as is supposed, impressions made by dipping the handin colour or in blood and then stamping it on the wall. Theyseem rather to have been made with a straigh
The American Egypt : a record of travel in Yucatan . ut the inside walls of the one on the north-east are ornamented from the floor to where the roof com-mences with that curious decoration which is met with againand again in so many Mayan buildings—the red hand. Itwas the best preserved of this kind of decoration we hadseen in the islands or on the mainland, and by the curiousformation of some of the marks it is certain that they werenot, as is supposed, impressions made by dipping the handin colour or in blood and then stamping it on the wall. Theyseem rather to have been made with a straight five-toothedinstrument like a painters graining-comb. Around thiswhole colouring was ascrollwork pattern of the same tint,giving it the appearance of a frame. Fifty yards in front of these two buildings stood athird facing west and measuring 80 feet by 30 and consistingof a small one-roomed house and a pillared temple, the roofsof which had both fallen. Here, as at Cancun, we were struckby the prevalence of the rounded pillars. Half-way between. -, 0°^^ *30
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