Note IV-11 — Chapter IV · ANTIQUITIES OF GUATEMALA AND BELIZE.
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The sculpture presents no old-world affinities whatever. A certain coarseness of execution, implying inferior tools, distinguishes them from the coarsest Egyptian carvings. Both grouping and execution indicate a still "barbaric state of art, with no advanced idea of beauty, the patience and industry of the workmen being more remarkable than their ideas or skill." Scherzer, Quiriguá, p. 11-12.