Biologia Centrali-Americana, or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America . a. is a flat slab, now much broken, measuring 4 feet 7 inches X 3 feet 8 inchesX1 foot; there are grooves cut in the edges, as if it had been fitted into awall. On the surface is a carving, in medium relief, of a human figure sittingwith legs crossed and clutching in its left hand an ornament, in which twosmall animals heads can be indistinctly made out, and holding it to its breast,whilst in the right hand is held an object similar to that shown in the handsof most of the fig
Biologia Centrali-Americana, or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America . a. is a flat slab, now much broken, measuring 4 feet 7 inches X 3 feet 8 inchesX1 foot; there are grooves cut in the edges, as if it had been fitted into awall. On the surface is a carving, in medium relief, of a human figure sittingwith legs crossed and clutching in its left hand an ornament, in which twosmall animals heads can be indistinctly made out, and holding it to its breast,whilst in the right hand is held an object similar to that shown in the handsof most of the figures in Plate VIII. The figure is seated above two intertwined plumed T*$k 24 COPAN. b, is the carving represented on Plate IX., a ; the slab is made up of four and d, are somewhat similar slabs much broken and worn; the figures in each have offerings in their hands similar to that shown on Plate IX., , is a large alligators head measuring roughly 2 feet each way: the long tenon with which this carving had been fixed into the masonry is still attached to it. f, is a human foot 2 feet long and 10 inches broad. g, is a carved stone 4 feet in length, to which I am unable to attach any meaning.
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