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Image:  4499b

File date:  1990-01-15

Caption:  Woman prisoner

Description:  Maya. Shell. incised height 17 cm. A female captive with arms bound behind her. Simon Martin suggests that the name incised on the shell is that of Pay Lakam Chaak, a Santa Elena lord mentioned at Yaxchilian. See 4499a for the other side of the shell. See 4499c and d for text.



Photograph by Justin Kerr