Annotated Bibliography

1 Uxmal, Kabah, Sayil, and Labná http://academic.reed.edu/uxmal/ return to Annotated Bibliography Architecture, Restoration, and Imaging of the Maya Cities of UXMAL, KABAH, SAYIL, AND LABNÁ The Puuc Region, Yucatán, México Charles Rhyne Reed College Annotated Bibliography Title This is not a general Maya bibliograpjy. Like this web site as a whole, it focuses on the architecture of Uxmal, Kabah, Sayil, and Labná, and on their restoraton and graphic imaging. Where a book contains chapters with different titles by different authors, one or more of these chapters may be listed separately under the title of the chapter, with its own annotation. A Reindel, Markus “El abandono de las ciudades puuc en el norte d Yucatán”. 50 años de estudios americanistas en la Universidad de Bonn: Nuevas contribuciones a la arqueología, etnohistoria, etnolingüistica y etnografia de las Américas, ed. Sabine Dedenbach-Salazar Sáenz, et al.: 239-258. Markt Schwaben: Verlag Anton Saurwein, 1998. 2 Finney, Ben R. “L’Abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg and Désiré Charnay.” Unpublished paper. Cambridge, MA: Harvard university, 1960. Sáenz Vargas, César A. “El adoratorio central, palacio del gobernador, Uxmal”. Revista Tlatoani. Period 1, Nos. 5-6: 45-50. México, D.F.: Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (ENAH), 1952. Photographs of the Governor’s Palace, Uxmal, are reproduced on this web site. http://academic.reed.edu/uxmal/galleries/thumbnails/uxmal/uxmal-govpalace.htm Ochoa, Lorenzo “Alberto Ruz Lhuillier”. La antropología en México: Panorama histórico, 11. Los protagonistas: 395-404. México, D.F.: Colección Biblioteca del INAH, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 1988. A brief, authoritative review of the professional life of Ruz Lhuiller (1906-1979), his publications, academic positions, theoretical approaches to archaeology and Maya culture, and his professional and public acclaim. The author describes his subject’s rigor in recording data and analysis, while always asking why things had been done, Ochoa also notes his aesthetic sensitivity to works of art, and cultural focus, including awareness of his own time. Special attention is given to Ruz Lhuller’s extensive study of Palenque and discovery of the tomb of Pascal, with its superbly carved sarcophagus lid, in the Temple of Inscriptions. Includes a bibliography of 20 of Ruz Lhuiller’s most important publication. Maler, Teobert Album fotográfico. 3 vols. Mérida: Biblioteca Carrillo y Ancona, n.d. Charnay, Claude Joseph Désiré Album fotográfico Mexicano. Mexico City: J. Michaud e hijo Editores, 2d, calle de S. Francisco no. 10, 1860. An edition was published in Paris in 1861. The first publication of photographs taken by Charnay in Mexico, including the first photographs ever taken of Maya ruins. Only a few copies were published but the volume was well received. Keith David writes that “This album, very rare today, contains 25 original prints up to 34x44 cm. in size which are designated ‘Forografia de Charnay, Mexico.’ Each photograph was accompanied by a page of explanatory text by the Mexican historian Manuel Orozo y Berra (1816-1881)” (Davis 1981, p. 201). 3 Proskouriakoff, Tatiana An Album of Maya Architecture. Carnegie Institution of Washington, Publication 558. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1946 (republished in paperback by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1963). Full-page reproductions of thirty-six gray-scale watercolor drawings (in the collection of the Peabody Museum, Harvard) of major, surviving Maya buildings and parts of cities, presenting Proskouiakoff’s proposed reconstructions “shown in perspective plotted from the most accurate measurements available.” Small, accompanying line drawings show the remains as they existed in the 1940s, distinguishing among “parts of a building which still stands substantially in their original position, . ruined or buried features which have a counterpart elsewhere on the same structure, [and] fallen elements whose approximate original position can be reasonably deduced from the general nature of the design.” “Whatever is less certain and has been restored merely by analogy with other buildings at the same site or by surmise based on habitual building practices of the Maya, is either entirely omitted . or is indicated lightly by the outline of existing debris.” In addition to a general introduction to Maya architecture, there are comments accompanying each drawing. The drawings include the Monjas Quadrangle, Palace of the Governors, and Palomas Group at Uxmal; Palace Group at Kabah; Palace at Sayil; and Palace and Portal Vault at Labná. In these she provides reasons for some of the details of her reconstructions. In a few instances she does not avoid aesthetic judgments. In the most extended example, she writes of the Codz Poop at Kabah: “In view of the tremendous amount of skilled labor involved in carving so many individual pieces of stone, the artistic effect achieved is disappointing, and one regrets that the originality of the designer was not equal to the craftsmanship of the artisan. The highly cultured and pious aristocracy of the Maya Old Empire would have scorned such baroque ostentation, the product of a later, more secular, civilization seeking to impress the populace with a spectacular display of technical skill. There is some indication that the building was designed to have two stories. Perhaps the builders themselves were discouraged by the results of their efforts by the time the mask façade was completed, and terminated the extravagance by substituting a simple roof comb for the intended second story. This change of plan may be in a measure responsible for the ineffectual pretensions of this building, which was obviously meant to dominate the composition of the group.” For a contrasting aesthetic judgment, see Stierlin). Graham, Ian Alfred Maudslay and the Maya: A Biography. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. As Graham points out, Maudslay never managed to get to Uxmal (p. 165), and Chichen Itza was the only Yucatan site he studied and published, Graham’s biography would not normally be included in this web bibliography. However, Maudslay’s 4 exemplary scholarship provides such essential context for understanding all Maya studies, and this is such an informative, carefully crafted account of his life and work that it must be included in any account of early explorers and scholars. Likewise, Maudslay’s recording methods provide essential context for understanding those of Uxmal and the Puuc region. He took superb photographs himself, using glass plate negatives, made careful maps of sites he studied, commission plaster casts from an Italian specialist, Lorenzo Giuntini, and commissioned an artist, Annie Hunter, to make drawings, color coded with watercolor, of the casts, to make the hieroglyphs and imagery more legible. Huchim Herrera, José, and Lourdes Toscano Hernández “Algunas anotaciones acerca de los sistemas constructivos de los edificios de Uxmal y Labna”. Memorias del Tercer Congreso International de Mayistas (9 al 15 de julio 1995), 729-739. Mexico [D.F.]: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1998. A detailed description and interpretation of new observations of the masonry construction at Uxmal and Labná, based on excavations begun in the 1990s by the Centro INAH Yucatán. The article is divided into 4 sections. The Introduction reviews previous studies of Puuc construction by Pollock, Gendrop, and George Andrews, which however were not based on excavations. The INAH studies aimed to obtain new data from extensive excavations and to revise previous descriptions of the architectural sequence. These were conducted at the Palace and Mirador Group, Labná, and at the Pyramid of the Magician, Quadrangle of the Birds, and Nunnery Quadrangle, Uxmal. Especially studied were the constructive content of the Labná Palace and Quadrangle of the Birds at Uxmal. In the section on Vaults and Friezes, the authors describe some of the results of their excavation of 18 vaults, 9 with mosaic decoration, some showing evidence of the early Puuc style. Photo 1 and figure 2 show spikes discovered and their positions in the nucleus of vaults in order to increase stability. Photo 2 shows that a layer of stucco was placed over the nucleus of a vault before applying the covering frieze area with mosaic decoration. The section on Foundations describes 2 techniques employed for construction of foundations. The brief section on Walls provides a vertical cross- section of the foundation wall of the East Building of the Nunnery. In the section on Remodeling of the Buildings, the authors describe examples of modifications carried out by the Maya when remodeling their buildings, some simply widening foundations, others requiring dismantling of an entire frieze. This brief article adds significantly to out understanding of innovative Puuc construction processes. There are 7 photographs and 3 diagrams, especially informative in showing important masonry details described in the text. del Mar, María del Mar de Pablo Aguilera “Algunas columnas antropomorfas en la mitad occidental del area Puuc: particular referencia al sitio de Oxkintok”. Perspectivas antropológicas en el mundo maya. 5 Sociedad Espanola de Estudios Mayas, Pub. 2. Ed. Josefa Iglesias Ponce de León, and Francesc Ligorred Perramon: 237-252. Madrid: Departamento de Historia de América II, Facultad de Geografía e Historia, Universidad Complutense; Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana, 1993. The author states that erect columns decorated

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