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Decorated by Jean Charlot and illustrated with photographs.
When the Carnegie Institution, in 1924, sent Earl Morris to Yucatan as head of an archaeological party, Mrs. Morris went along and shared in the expedition's great labor, which was the reerecting of the Maya Temple of the Warriors at Chichen Itza. This is her vivid and informal account of a work that occupied a period of six years and contributed materially to scientific knowledge of the first known civilization on the American continent. Amusing and informing anecdotes of contemporary Maya workmen and stories from legend and history color the narrative and give it the excitement of fiction.
As a small girl, Ann Axtell wanted to grow up to "dig for buried treasure, and explore among the Indians, and paint, and wear a gun, and go to college." Strangely, she grew up to do every one of those things and now, as an archeologist and the wife of an archeologist, she considers archeology "a lot of hard work and even more fun."
The fine drawings by Jean Charlot, who worked with Mrs. Morris on the Temple murals, match the distinction of the text.
—from the first edition dust jacket
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