Drawing to ^^llo\v iiartinl restoration of the principal temple group at Tuloom 



Tliis near view of the Ca.stillo shows the feathered serpent columns, a late development of Maya art, 

 portraying the rattlesnake, and probably introduced from the Mexican plateau sometime after 1200 A.D. 

 The big block at the base is the head, the column itself is the plumed body, and the capital with its 

 upward extension, the rattles. This type of column reached its highest development at Chichenitza, 

 some sixty miles to the west of Tuloom 



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