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sunken background is achieved. The cheek and mouth of the woman 

 bear ornamentation in tattoo. In the next illustration (b), taken from 

 Lintel 3, the expression of the face is considerably altered by the 

 change in eye and brow. The eye is given a bulging quality by the 

 incised outline of the heavy upper lid that parallels the profile of the 

 face above the bridge of the nose. The second figure on this lintel has 

 a face of much more rugged outline. The two subjects on Lintel 42 

 (pi. xi, c) make a contrast of individualities even though both are 

 drawn with the same conventions. The man at the observer's right 

 is possibly a priest of war, as he holds out a Manikin Scepter that 

 may in this instance be an elaborate battle ax. The person who faces 

 him carries a shield in one hand and in the other a battle ax, or celt, 

 of serviceable pattern. The face of this second subject is notably 

 youthful in appearance. An incipient mustache is faintly traced upon 



a b c 



Fig. 10. — Faces on Yaxchilan lintels, (a, Lintel 2; b, Lintel 15; c, Lintel 41.) 



the upper lip, and the lower one is less pendulous than is that of his 

 companion. In figure 10 the drawings picture a man (a) and two 

 women (b and c) with lines of great delicacy and precision. The women 

 have softer features and a lock of hair that falls down over the fore- 

 head. From this survey it appears that heads of the Palenque type 

 have little in common except the flattened forehead and the modifi- 

 cation of the face that results directly from this. 



The Final Products of the Great Period. — At Seibal, sometimes 

 called Sastanquiqui, the principal Maya ruin on the Rio de la Pasion, 

 there are several well-preserved sculptures in low relief upon great 

 slabs of fine-grained limestone. They are among the finest products of 

 Maya art and date from the end of the Great Period. Of special 

 interest to us in our present quest are Stelae 8 to 1 1, opposite the four 

 sides of a temple mound in the principal plaza of this forest-covered 



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