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are varied for all cases, but the most marked individuality is seen in 

 the downcast old man at the observer's right, and in the heavily 

 bearded person who sits next to him. Drawings of captives from 

 other cities emphasize the intention to degrade these unfortunates, 

 and by contrast to emphasize the beauty and splendor of the victors. 



The Principal Personages. — We have seen that miserable and di- 

 sheveled captives are treated with crude realism. But does this realism 

 ever manifest itself in the treatment of principal subjects? As a 

 general rule the principal subjects are characterized by dignity, repose, 

 and conventional beauty. At Tikal, however, there is a human repre- 

 sentation with a torso so aldermanic in its development that no one 

 can pretend it was carved thus for 

 esthetic effect. This is on the under- 

 side of Lintel 2, Temple III. The 

 beams of zapote wood are still in 

 position, but the sculptured surface 

 is in such an advanced state of decay 

 that no drawing of it has ever been 

 published and only a rough sketch 

 (fig. 8) can be given at this time. On 

 Lintel I at La Mar is drawn a chief- 

 tain whose bodily proportions are 

 somewhat gross, and the same may 

 be said of the figure on Stela 35 at 

 Piedras Negras. 



But portraiture, if attempted at 

 all, must ordinarily have been ex- 

 pressed in the face. The examples of 

 bodily peculiarities already noted 

 serve to strengthen the probability 

 that the apparent facial peculiarities 

 of exalted personages on stelae, etc., 

 may be regarded as intentionally real- 

 istic. Something analogous to the 

 portrait types in pottery must be 

 noted in the stone sculptures. Each 

 city has usually a favorite type that 

 can easily be distinguished from the 

 favorite type of another city, and yet 

 there is always a considerable play 

 for individuality within the type. In the fixing of facial types for 

 each city, we should not fail to consider duly the faces which occur in 



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Fig. 8.- 



-Sketch of figure on Lintel 2, 

 Temple III, Tikal. 



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