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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo13amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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THE TEMPLE OF THE JAGUARS 277 The element of real clanger was furnished by the disintegrating wall material and the loose stones of the grouting. These stone fragments were some of them quite large and had been placed by the ancient builders in the plastic mass of grouting much like the nodules in the pudding stone. The softer mortar wearing away with the erosion of the centuries has left the stones outcropping, at times falling of their own weight and always a constant factor of dan- ger to those working be- neath them. Then too the high winds and rain storms that prevailed at this season, while they aided the growing crops and made the lux- uriant vegetation, also increased the difficul- ties of the undertaking in hand. Once we had the work on the north- ern facade all done, and well done it was too. The long sections were duly marked and noted, nothing remained but the hot sun to do its part in drying and hardening the plastic paper surface. Even while we were looking at it with tired backs but satisfied hearts, black cloud heads ap- peared in the east, they rose rapidly and hid the sun. We at once put the heavy tarpaulins over the molded sur- faces fixing them in place by the iron force-
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Making the molds in a temperature of 130° F. was no easy task. The photograph shows the mold of the head completed. tThe serpent tail capital weighs nearly three tons

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1913
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  • bookid:americanmuseumjo13amer
  • bookyear:c1900-[1918]
  • bookdecade:c190
  • bookcentury:c100
  • bookauthor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History
  • booksubject:Natural_history
  • bookpublisher:New_York_American_Museum_of_Natural_History
  • bookcontributor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History_Library
  • booksponsor:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library
  • bookleafnumber:299
  • bookcollection:biodiversity
  • bookcollection:americanmuseumnaturalhistory
  • bookcollection:americana
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