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With the imagination of an artist and the precision of a scientist, Tatiana Proskouriakoff has captured in pictures thirty-six restorations of magnificent Maya buildings as their builders saw the scenes more than a thousand years ago. Facing her painting of each structure is a documented text of archaeological findings and a line drawing of the existing remains. First issued by the Carnegie Institution of Washington in 1946, this important volume is returned to print in a new format by the University of Oklahoma Press.
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An Album of Maya Architecture Carnegie Institution of Washington. Publication 558
author
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Proskouriakoff, Tatiana.
publisher
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University of Oklahoma Press
isbn10 | asin
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0806113510
print isbn13
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9780806113517
ebook isbn13
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9780806170107
language
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English
subject
Architecture, Maya, Mayas--Antiquities.
publication date
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1976
lcc
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F1435.3.A6P7 1976eb
ddc
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972.015
subject
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Architecture, Maya, Mayas--Antiquities.
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An Album of Maya Architecture
By Tatiana Proskouriakoff
Norman and London UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS
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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 63-17166
ISBN: 0-8061-1351-0
New edition copyright 1963 by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University. First edition published by the Carnegie Institution of Washington in 1946. Manufactured in the U.S.A. First printing of the new edition, September, 1963.
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Acknowledgment
In 1938, Dr. Linton Satterthwaite, Jr., of the University Museum at Philadelphia, suggested to me that I make a perspective drawing of the acropolis at Piedras Negras. He put at my disposal all the unpublished data which the expeditions of the museum had obtained during their excavations at the site, and gave me his personal help and advice in its preparation. The project of making a series of such drawings representing various sites in the Maya area was first conceived by the late Dr. Sylvanus G. Morley, of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, who personally undertook to obtain financial assistance for my trip to Copn in 1939, and to Chichn Itz and the cities of the Puuc in 1940. I am deeply grateful to the anonymous contributors, who as the Friends of Copn and the Friends of Chichn Itz, responded so generously and made it possible for me to make studies at first hand of the buildings at these two sites. Without their help the project might never have been undertaken. To Dr. Morley, however, I am indebted not only for its initiation and for his successful efforts in my behalf, but also for the constant encouragement, constructive criticism, and invaluable suggestions he offered so freely in every phase of its progress, giving generously of his time and attention to the planning of the drawings and the reading of the introduction and the original draft of the text. With equal gratitude I recall the unstinted help I have received from Dr. J. Alden Mason, curator of the American Section of the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania, and from Dr. Linton Satterthwaite, Jr.,
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who was in charge of its expeditions to Piedras Negras from 1933 to 1940. Much unpublished material incorporated in the Piedras Negras drawings has been made available to me through the courtesy of the museum, which has also offered me the use of a drafting room and other facilities for its utilization. For Dr. Satterthwaite's concrete help in the interpretation of the data and for his advice and encouragement I can never adequately express my thanks.
Among my colleagues of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, I have also met throughout with the sort of co-operation that brings to any project the benefits of a wider scope of experience than rests in an individual author. Briefly I want to mention their specific contributions, but not before expressing my particular appreciation of the unfailing interest of Dr. A. V. Kidder, under whose supervision the book took shape and from whose suggestions, in fact, it largely derives its present form. To Mr. Gustav Strmsvik I am indebted for much information from his deep fund of knowledge about the ruined structures of Copn, and for numerous courtesies which facilitated by trip to the site and helped to make my visit there pleasant and worth while. Mr. Karl Ruppert made available to me the results of his work at Xpuhil and on the Mercado at Chichn Itz, which were unpublished when the drawings were made. Dr. H. E. D. Pollock has helped me by criticisms and suggestions dealing with the restoration of buildings in the Puuc area, and by providing me with most of the data on which they are based. To Mr. A. Ledyard Smith I owe the publication of the series of drawings depicting Structure AV at Uaxactn, which originally were designed for his report. Mr. Edwin M. Shook's excellent plans of this structure are the basis of the restorations, and I am also indebted to Mr. Shook for the difficult trip he made in 1941 to Tikal to obtain measurements and notes which have made possible a restoration of Temple II.
Dr. Kenneth J. Conant, of the Department of Architecture in the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, and Mr. Henry R. Shepley have both contributed many helpful suggestions, and I am grateful to Mrs. W. H. Harrison not only for her careful reading of the text but also for her ready and sympathetic attention to problems outside the scope of her official duties as editor of the Division of Historical Research.
Many friends here and in Middle America, by their kindness and courtesy, have helped to make my task lighter and more pleasant. I want to thank them all for their interest, which has been a constant incentive, and which is inextricably fused with my own efforts in the making of every page of this book.
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Contents
Acknowledgment
v
Introduction
ix
1. Structure E-VII sub Uaxactn, Guatemala
3
2. Temple II Tikal, Guatemala
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3. Shrine in the Temple of the Cross Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico
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