Illustration for BOK Depicting Variants of Mountain or Tun Monster

Autor
Linda Schele
Material
Ink on white paper
Dimensiones de Objeto
11 1/2 x 9 in
Colección de Objeto
La Colección de Dibujos de Linda Schele
Numero de Objeto
SD-3519
Anotaciónes
verso: BOK Fig. 23 Bonampak ST.1 Kawak Monster; Kawak onster from Metropolitan pot; Full-fig. Kawak in Te'-Tun; Palenque Tablet of the slave personified eccentric flint; Stone ax head from Dumbarton Oaks Panel, Bonampak ST. 1 (MC-Fig. 318B) reverse: Introduction 0.29 The Kawac Monster
Bibliografía

Schele, Linda, and David A. Freidel. 1990. A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc.: 45-46;

Freidel, David A., Linda Schele, and Joy Parker. 1993. Maya Cosmos: Three Thousand Years on the Shaman's Path. New York: W. Morrow: 200, Fig. 4:17(a)

Rights and Image Use

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Región Cronológico
Late Classic
Cultura
Maya
Descripción

Various representations of the witz or "mountain." Top figure = base from Bonampak Stela 1 shows Maize God emerging from cleft in mountain. Second row, left=personified mountain from Metropolitan Pot; right=full-figure witz from Stela D, Copan. Bottom row, left=personified eccentric flint from Tablet of the Slaves, Palenque; right=stone ax head from Dumbarton Oaks Panel.

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