Kabáh Photographs

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Core Title Kabáh Photographs

Collection description "Kabáh (kah-bah) is a small Maya site in the Puuc Hills region (the only hills found on the Yucatán) of the southwest Yucatán Peninsula, 15 miles south of the large Maya city of Uxmal. It is part of a cluster of small sites including and Sayil, which were all connected by 'Sacbe' Maya raised roads or walkways between Maya cities."
Kabáh along with Sayil and Labná are smaller but still interesting minor Maya ruins clustered together in the Northern Yucatán, about 15 miles from the much larger Maya ruins of Uxmal. This region of Mexico’s northern Yucatán Peninsula is known as the 'Pook Hills,' because it lies amongst the only small hills found on the entire flat, limestone Yucatán Peninsula. All of these Maya sites share unique, similar and recognizable Pook-Style designs on their temple structures."
"It’s most prominent structure, The Palace of the Masks temple is 115-feet wide and it is unique in the Maya world because its entire façade is covered with rows of approximately 250 stone masks, of the Chac the Maya Rain God, with its long curved nose jutting out from the God’s face. Each of the masks are approximately three feet wide and each are constructed using about thirty carved stones, tightly fitted together, much like a three-dimensional puzzle. Similar Chac Rain God Masks can be found on the walls of many other Maya sites, including Uxmal and Chichén Itzá, but nowhere else is a large and magnificent building covered with these beautiful ornamentations." -- Payne Johnson.
“See also John Lloyd Stephens, 'Incidents of travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatán,' with numerous engravings. Revised from the latest American edition, with additions, by Frederick Catherwood. London: Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co., 1854. https://digitallibrary.usc.edu/asset-management/2A3BF1QKX7SV5?WS=SearchResults.”

Creator Johnson, Payne B. (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1982-12, 1992-01

Coverage Temporal 1982-12, 1992-01

Place Name Boca Iglesia (archaeological sites), Central America (regions), Mexico (countries), North America (continents), Yucatán (states)

Subject Archaeological site location (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Format 13 photographs (extent), ruins (aat)

Internet Media Type multipart/related

Type images

Source 20210812-johnson-meso-shoaf (batch), Kabáh Photographs (subcollection), Payne B. Johnson Latin American Photographs (collection), University of Southern California (contributing entity)

Identifier 2 (box), 0550 (collection number), johnson-kbh (filename)