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1843. Print of Nunnery West Building, front facade: Earliest image of important surviving section with standing figure with loincloth and staff.
Scanned from Stephens, Incidents of Travel
in Yucatan, 1843; closely based on Catherwood’s 1841-42 on-site drawing.
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1859-60; 1862. Photograph of same section of facade and figure as in 1843 print at left.
Photograph mounted in Vol.1 of Désiré Charnay, Cités et Ruines Américaines, 1862; taken by Charnay 1859-60. This image scanned from a 35mm slide taken from a copy in the AMNH (RF-106-D). Reproduced Courtesy of The Libary, Special Collections, American Museum of Natural History. |
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ca.1873. Photograph of same section of facade and figure as in 2 earlier images at left; showing remarkable preservation over 30 years.
Photograph by Augustus Le 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.137-454). |
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1917. "Fig. 36. Uxmal. House of the Nuns. West building. Figure of a flute blower (?), from the frieze of the southern remnants of the main facade."
Scanned from Eduard Seler, “Die Ruinen von Uxmal,” 1917; closely based on Seler’s on-site drawing (fig.36). |
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2001. Important intact section
of frieze, the basis for restoration on collapsed sections
(cf. 1847 print and 1863 and 1881 photos above).
Jan. 2001 |
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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. |
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Same figure as in most other photos on this page, showing long tenon for head of figure.
Jan. 2001 |
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Same standing figure, wearing loincloth
and cape, holding staff diagonally across chest, seemingly
wearing a mask.
Jan. 2001 |
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Same standing figure, showing that head, upper and lower body are each separate
pieces of stone.
Jan. 2001 |
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