

SOUTHWEST WING 
ANCIENT MONUMENTS OF MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA 
Continuing west from the South Pavilion containing the astronomical 
clock, we pass through the West Corridor which is reserved for the exhibits 
of the Department of Anatomy and Physiology and the Department of 
Public Health and enter the Southwest Wing devoted chiefly to ancient 
monuments from Mexico and Central America. 
From the entrance to the middle of the hall are collections from South 
America and Yucatan. The rear of the hall contains material from 
Mexico. The reproductions illustrate chiefly the sculpture of Mayan and 
Nahuatl cultures and are the gift of the Duke of Loubat. The material 
of the Mayan culture comprises plaster casts of the ancient stone monu- 
ments, or stele and altar stones, the stone and obsidian tools used to 
carve them, stone sculptures found in excavations and ruined buildings of 
the ancient city of Copan, and pottery of various designs. At the left of 
the entrance are two cases of pottery, jade and stone work from Costa 
Rica and Panama, evidently marking a lower type of civilization. 
The casts of the large stone pillars are taken from the ancient stele, 
and which probably were erected as monuments and some of which are 
standing even to-day. Returning to the center of the hall 
and going back to the east entrance, we see reproductions of 
stelee from Copan arranged in order from the oldest and crudest form to a 
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