The ancient cities of the New World : being travels and explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882 . TOLTEC CARYATID, TULA. bas-reliefs in Chiapas, Palenque, and Lorlllard City. The greaves,of leather bands, are passed between the toes and fastened onthe instejj and above it by large knots, recalling the Roman statue is of black basalt, like all the other fragments ; andalthough exceedingly rude and archaic in character, is not Anti(.)Uities of Tula. 95 wanting in beauty in some of its details. Next comes a column intwo pieces, lying on the ground, having a round teno
The ancient cities of the New World : being travels and explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882 . TOLTEC CARYATID, TULA. bas-reliefs in Chiapas, Palenque, and Lorlllard City. The greaves,of leather bands, are passed between the toes and fastened onthe instejj and above it by large knots, recalling the Roman statue is of black basalt, like all the other fragments ; andalthough exceedingly rude and archaic in character, is not Anti(.)Uities of Tula. 95 wanting in beauty in some of its details. Next comes a column intwo pieces, lying on the ground, having a round tenon which. PARTS OF A COLUMN, TULA. fitted closely into the mortise and ensured solidity ; it is the onlyspecimen we have found where such care had been carving on theoutward portion ofthe column consistsof feathers or palms,whilst the reverse iscovered with scalesof serpents arrangedin parallel fragment an-swers Sahaguns de-scription about thecolumns of a templededicated to Quetzal- -^^.^ coatl, already men-tioned, where rattle-snakes formed the ornamentation,the fact that we shall see a similar column at Chichen-Itza in atemple of the same god. Here also among other fragments Inoticed a Greek column with a Doric capital, but on which I dare
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