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A Shell Snake Effigy from British Honduras

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

C. W. Meighan and
J. A. Bennyhoff
C. W. Meighan
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley, California
J. A. Bennyhoff
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley, California
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During a field trip to British Honduras in the summer of 1950, the carved representation of a serpent sketched in Figure 116 was seen in the private collection of Mr. Eustace Evans of Belize. Esthetically, the piece is designed and executed with a skill that makes it an outstanding example of aboriginal art. The specimen is also deserving of description because it is stylistically unusual for the Maya area, being quite different from the traditional Maya artifacts.

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American Antiquity , Volume 16 , Issue 4 , April 1951, pp. 352 - 353
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1951

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