The American Museum journal (c1900-(1918)) (17537948854)

Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo17amer (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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194 TEE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL Dr. Howe had removed this monument to the beach north of the principal temple.' The past field season (1916) seemed especially favorable for visiting this little-known but highly interesting center of aboriginal population, a corn- transferred from Santa Cruz de Bravo in the interior to Payo Obispo on the shores of Chetumal Bay, and the old capital with all its improvements had been turned over to the Indians, thus settling an old controversy. Again, the writer was at Belize, much the best
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The rugged outline of the bluff at Tuloom and the surging surf at the base. Above rises the Castillo, the "very great tower" of Padre Diaz' early sixteenth century description, pricked out in striking silhouette against the sky. All modern nautical charts give this tower as a prominent land- mark, visible for many miles bination of unusual factors making the moment peculiarly opportune for the attempt. To begin with, for the first time in many years, the Mexican gov- ernment had reached a friendly under- standing with the Santa Cruz Indians; the capital of Quintana Eoo had been 1 Since the foregoing was written a letter from Mr. Lothrop, at Belize, British Honduras, states that the Tuloom stele has probably been lost. A small sailing vessel from Cozumel, commissioned to Dring out the monument, has apparently gone down in a great storm that swept the coast of Yucatan. point of departure for visiting Tuloom, witli an unusually complete field equip- ment; and finally, the staff of the ex- pedition was sufficiently large, includ- ing five investigators and assistants, to insure a fairly adequate preliminary study of the site in a minimum of time —the latter not an inconsiderable factor in spite of the recent "peace negotiations." The dry season was at its height; in short, all factors com-