Art, Symbol & Imagination
Maya Figure with an Elaborate Headdress
A profile figure wears an enormous feathered headdress and densely patterned clothing. The source identifies the carving with Yucatán and offers its own interpretation of the figure as a masked priest.
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Maker and photographer uncredited. "Maya Figure with an Elaborate Headdress" [editorial title]. In Masks and Demons, Kenneth Macgowan; with Herman Rosse’s theatrical research and line drawings. Harcourt, Brace edition, 1923, 1923, Harcourt, Brace and Company. Source scan leaf 70. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/library-0464-068
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Maker and photographer uncredited. Maya Figure with an Elaborate Headdress. Masks and Demons. Scan leaf 70. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/library-0464-068