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Identifier: northamerica00russ (find matches)
Title: North America
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Russell, Israel C. (Israel Cook), 1852-1906
Subjects: North America
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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elower or medial moulding below to the coping course above is about 10feet. The entire length, covering the four walls of the building, is some725 feet. If we allow that the stones employed average 6 by 12 inches insurface dimensions, this deeply coffered and relieved mosaic would com-prise upward of 20,000 pieces, all specially cut and a large percentageelaborately sculptured. Two plain coping courses are seen at the top,followed by a twined fillet moulding, while under this is a line of veryornate snouted masks. The broad space below is filled with bold fret-work, set on a lattice ground and interrupted by the wonderful overdoortrophy, the central feature of which is a human figure, fully life size,sculptured in the round and seated in a niche with festooned base. Thehead (now displaced) was surrounded by an elaborate and colossal head-dress, most of which remains. The horizontal bars terminating in ser-pent heads at both ends are separated by lines of hieroglyphs.— IV. H.Ho hues.
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I i —Si ul(• ired I ■ ■ I I i THE ABORIGINES 395 of the white people of America to an interest in the manyrelics of ancient earthworks, buildings, utensils, etc., foundthroughout the continent, and a healthy growth of an earnestdesire to record all that can be learned concerning the repre-sentatives still remaining of the vanished peoples to whomthey pertain. In the van of this important work is the Bureau of Eth-nology of the Smithsonian Institution. Important work hasalso been carried on by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology,situated at Cambridge, and more recently has been takenup in an energetic manner by the American Museum in NewYork and the Field Columbian Museum at Chicago. TheNational Museum of Mexico has assembled rich stores ofarchaeological and ethnological material pertaining to thenative races of Mexico, and the Mexican Government isdoing much to preserve the priceless prehistoric monumentsof the republic from vandalism. There are also many pri-vate antiquarian co

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