Identifier: scienceguide7692amer (find matches)
Title: Guide leaflet
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history
Publisher: New York : The Museum
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO

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of thumb sreometrv, sincea little less than a third of a cylindrical bodycan be viewed from the side. Continuouspatterns, except for borders, are much lesscommon. Besides the steps, grecques andvolutes of geometric design, there werealso conventionalizations of iiatural forms.Flowers, animals, hieroglyphs, religious sym-bols, were cunningly treated to make decora-tive effects. In the Maya pottery of Copanand Salvador the monkey was often used,since its elongated arms and tail were readilyadaptable to the needs of design. The colors include shades of white, red,yellow, orange, black, with occasional usesof blue and green. The disposition of thecolors usnally involves one for the back-ground, another to outline the design, and athird to fill the patterns. Sometimes when l-lahi)i\itc painted (.le-sions come troiii theMaya country. The twocircular patterns (atteiMcrwin and Vaillant.1^)32) adorned a plateand a howl cover fromHolmul, in the Petendistrict of Guatemala.They are in polychrome
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The realism of the two Mayavase paintings is skilfullyto decorative needs.Extraordinary as is the fancyshown in their creations, the twodesigns from Cholula bowls areequally original in conception.The pattern shown in the centralrectangle was inspired by afeather headdress placed againstan ocelot skin, and the decorationbelow utilizes a feather fan

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