A Study of Maya Art, Its Subject Matter and Historical Development

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The Museum, 1913 - Indian art - 285 pages

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Contents

INTRODUCTION
1
Native Accounts
10
Foreshortening and Perspective
27
Copyright

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Bibliographic information

TitleA Study of Maya Art, Its Subject Matter and Historical Development
Harvard University. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Memoirs. v.6
Volume 6 of Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Mass Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology Cambridge
AuthorHerbert Joseph Spinden
PublisherThe Museum, 1913
Length285 pages
  
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