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A Chinese Soapstone Carving from Yucatan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Schuyler V. R. Cammann
Schuyler V. R. Cammann*
Affiliation:
The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania
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J. Alden Mason (1951) described two soapstone figurines which seemed to be of Chinese manufacture that have turned up in Mexico and Guatemala, respectively. In connection with these, I should like to call attention to still another object of the same substance, discovered in Yucatan, which is undoubtedly of Chinese manufacture.

Gann (1918) illustrates a “soapstone lamp” which he had found in a mound near Bacalar in Quintana Roo. He describes this “lamp” as decorated in front with a floral design and at the back by wing or feather-like ornaments possibly meant to represent the tail and halffolded wings of a bird, and remarks that its pleasing design and flowing lines are totally unlike the cramped and highly conventional style found in “similar small objects of ancient Maya manufacture.”

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American Antiquity , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , July 1952 , pp. 68 - 69
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1952

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Gann, Thomas W. F. 1918. The Maya Indians of Southern Yucatan and Northern British Honduras. Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 64, pp. 130–131, Fig. 78. Washington.Google Scholar
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