The American Egypt : a record of travel in Yucatan . WHO WERE AMERICAS FIRST ARCHITECTS ? 269 tectural details of the Mayan and Buddhist buildings, we believethat, carefully studied, the former, and particularly, as we shouldhave expected, those at Copan and Quirigua, exhibit distinctsurvivals of Buddhist influence. Mr. Maudslay, in his superbseries of photographs of stelae (Biologia Centrali-Americana),shows clearly in the hands of nearly every figure what hecalls a manikin staff —a short stick surmounted by ahuman figure issuing from feathers or leaves. He cannotexplain it, but we believe th
The American Egypt : a record of travel in Yucatan . WHO WERE AMERICAS FIRST ARCHITECTS ? 269 tectural details of the Mayan and Buddhist buildings, we believethat, carefully studied, the former, and particularly, as we shouldhave expected, those at Copan and Quirigua, exhibit distinctsurvivals of Buddhist influence. Mr. Maudslay, in his superbseries of photographs of stelae (Biologia Centrali-Americana),shows clearly in the hands of nearly every figure what hecalls a manikin staff —a short stick surmounted by ahuman figure issuing from feathers or leaves. He cannotexplain it, but we believe that it may be nothing less than amuch corrupted survival of the sacred lotus held by Buddhistimages. In photographs of carvings at Bharahat and alsoat Boro Budor, the Buddhas and their attendants appearto hold just such short staves, really the rubbery stem, sur-mounted by the lotus-flower, out of which seems to issue insome instances a kind of face. There appear, too, in the graspof many figures on the friezes at Bharahat short sticks sur-mounted
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