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1859-60/1862; later copy photograph. Earliest photo of the northwest corner.
Taken by Desiré Charnay 1859-60, mounted in the folio volume of Cités et ruines américaines, Vol. 1, Paris, 1862. Scanned from a 35mm slide taken of the contrasty copy photograph in the volume at the AMNH (RF-106-D). Reproduced Courtesy of The Library, Special Collections, American Museum of Natural History. |
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ca.1873. Photograph. North end and north section of front
facade.
Photograph by Augustus Plongeon, ca.1873. Scanned from high quality 35mm slide provided by the Getty Research Institute, taken from an original photograph in their collection. Reproduced with permission. Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (96.R.137-452). |
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2003. Recent photograph of same view seen in photographs at left. Northwest corner of East Buidiling.
Jan. 2003 (24mm lens) |
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1917. "Fig. 22. Uxmal. House of the Nuns. East building. North side of the mask column at the northwest corner of the frieze."
Scanned from Eduard Seler, “Die Ruinen von Uxmal,” 1917 (fig. 22) |
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2003. Front-left (northwest) corner, stack
of 3 masks, eachwith headband with flower in center.
Jan. 2003
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Serpent head projecting from
corner of cornice molding; tortoise head projecting from corner
of medial molding; both moldings have short colonnettes
between flat mid strips and beveled bottom strip.
Jan. 2003 |
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1917. Print. "Fig. 25. Uxmal. House of the Nuns. East building. Flat relief on the outside of the mask column at the northeast corner of the building."
Scanned from Eduard Seler, “Die Ruinen von Uxmal,” 1917 (fig. 25)
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2001. Detail of right side of mask stack, seen in photo below at right.
Jan. 2001 |
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Detail of view in photograph above; tortoise head projecting
from flat course of medial molding, restored.
Jan. 2001 |
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Same coner maskstack: cornice, upper molding with
protruding serpent head, and upper section of corner mask,
with broken snout, showing red paint remains in protected
areas.
Jan. 2003 |
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Same coner maskstack: middle section of corner
mask, with hole for missing snout, showing red paint
remains in protected areas.
Jan. 2003 |
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Same coner maskstack: lower section of corner mask,
showing red paint remains in protected areas, and median molding
with protruding tortoise head.
Jan. 2003 |
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