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Front facade showing location
of well-preserved facade at right, with mask stack and southeast corner.
Jan. 2003 (24mm lens) |
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1859-60/1862; later copy photo. Showing the well-preseved area at far right of front facade. Compare restoration seen in photo below.
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 of east end of front facade; showing rubble-concrete core and well-preserved portion of facade with mask stacks; Alice Dixon Le Plongeon standing.
Photograph by Augustus Le Plongeon, ca. 1873. Scanned from a 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.137-455). |
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Mask stack on sotheast corner of North Building.
Nov. 1999 |
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Restored section of front facade, with mask stack,
frieze, and corner mask stack (cf. 19th century photos above).
Jan. 2003 |
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Bottom of corner mask stack, partly restored.
Nov. 1999 |
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1917. Print of same mask stack as in photo
at right; not including any of the Tloloc mask at top, the right portion of which was still in place.
Scanned from Eduard Seler, “Die
Ruinen von Uxmal,” 1917 (fig. 62). |
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1999. Mask stack over doorway 2; four
masks, each with similar features (see captions for each mask
below). At top is the most completely preserved Tloloc
mask surmounting a mask stack. Foliation frames the mask stack at left and right (cf.
print at left).
Nov. 1999 |
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Angle view of Tloloc mask
seen in photo at left; showing depth of relief carving and tenons.
Jan. 2001 |
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Most completely preserved
Tlaloc mask surmounting a mask stack; similar masks presumably topped all mask
stacks on the front facade.
Nov. 1999 |
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Middle 2 masks in stack.
Nov. 1999 |
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Bottom 2 masks in stack.
Nov. 1999 |
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