Colossal Stucco Mask from Group H
Schele, Linda, and David A. Freidel. 1990. A forest of kings: the untold story of the ancient Maya. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc.:138, Fig. 4:7
Schele, Linda. 1995. "The Olmec mountain and tree of creation in Mesoamerican cosmology". Olmec World : Ritual and Rulership: 5:109, Fig. 13
Freidel, David A., Linda Schele, and Joy Parker. 1993. Maya cosmos: three thousand years on the shaman's path. New York: W. Morrow:141, Fig. 3.9
This drawing collection is protected by copyright. The drawings contained in this archive are freely available for scholarly study and academic publication. Please contact LACMA's Rights and Reproductions Department at [email protected] for written permission and publication-quality image assets.
Colossal stucco mask from Group H. The lower band has been interpreted as fish swimming in the primordial sea; the lower mask as the mountain of creation and the upper mask as a human-made Snake Mountain.