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Front facade showing location of
surviving mask stacks. From left, stacks are over doorways 2, 4, 6 (the central doorway), and
to right of doorway 11.
Jan. 2003 (24mm lens) |
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Mask stack, with 4 masks, over doorway 2,
each mask with similar features (see captions for detailed images): foliated scrolls frame the mask stack
at left and right.
Jan. 2003 |
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Same mask stack showing varying
setbacks of mosaic parts.
Jan. 2001 |
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ca.1873. Photo of same mask stack over doorway 2.
Photograph by August Le Plongeon, ca.1873. Scanned from a high quality 35mm slide provided by the Getty Research Institute from an original photograph in their collection. Reproduced with permission. Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (96.R.137). |
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1917. Print of same mask stack (mislabeled as 3rd door in Seler's caption). "Fig. 59. Uxmal. House of the Nuns. North building. Inner or main facade (south front). First (lowest) and third and fourth masks of the mask column B above the third door (counting from the west end)."
Scanned from Eduard Seler, “Die Ruinen von Uxmal”, 1917 (fig. 59). |
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1995. Reconstruction drawing of same mask stack.
Scanned from George F. Andrews, Pyramids and Palace, Monsters and Masks; Vol. 1, Architecture of the Puuc Regions and the Northern Plains Area, 1995, p. 91. Reproduced with permission of Labyrinthos, publishers.
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Upper mask, showing features
similar to others, but having upper and lower teeth instead
of fangs and wearing a flower headband; all four masks have
a flower between the upper eyelids.
Jan. 2003 |
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2nd mask from top, showing
different details for eyes with lids, mouth with fangs, and
flower between upper eyelids (with crossbones).
Jan. 2003 |
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3rd mask from top, with details
similar to those in photo at left (2nd mask from top).
Jan. 2003 |
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1917. Print showing, at top, Tlaloc mask
now missing (cf. photo at top-center); goggle-like eyes, nose
bar, curving mustache, upper teeth, bar and trapeze symbol
at both sides. "Fig. 67. Uxmal. House of the Nuns. North building. Main facade (south front). Tlaloc-like mask accompanied by the symbol of the year. Cornice of the mask column of the frieze and the highest mask of column B (compare to page 65, fig. 59)."
Scanned from Eduard Seler, “Die Ruinen von Uxmal,” 1917 (fig. 67). |
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Bottom mask in stack, showing
narrowest mouth and different eyelid decorations.
Jan. 2003 |
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Latticework pattern to left
of mask stack; showing complex latticework background, with
diamond shapes formed by serrated diagonals, surrounding flowers.
Jan. 2003 |
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