Excerpt from Portraiture in Central American Art The altar. The costumes of the two Chieftains are alike. Besides the bone awl each carries a ceremonial pouch over one arm and has at his foot a serpent-headed incense burner. Again the personal hiero glyph furnishes proof of identity, and individual traits do not appear. It must be admitted that on these two monuments the conventional figures are much smaller than nature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find ...
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Excerpt from Portraiture in Central American Art The altar. The costumes of the two Chieftains are alike. Besides the bone awl each carries a ceremonial pouch over one arm and has at his foot a serpent-headed incense burner. Again the personal hiero glyph furnishes proof of identity, and individual traits do not appear. It must be admitted that on these two monuments the conventional figures are much smaller than nature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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