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Figure said to be from facade of West Building. This well preserved figure indicates how other facade sculpture may have been finished. It is slightly more naturalistically shaped than its counterpart, more than any other sculpture at Uxmal. Note also the articulated fingernails.
Scanned from 35mm slide in Pre-Columbian Collection, Dumbarton Oaks. Courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard Uiversity.