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Houston, David Stuart, and Karl Taube, <I>The Memory of Bones: Body, Being, and Experience among the Classic Maya</I> (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006)., p. 22 (illus. line drawing)","date":2006,"id":2616,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/61660268"},{"boilertext":"<i>Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections </i>(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2013)","citation":"<i>Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections </i>(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2013), p. 122","date":2013,"id":1994,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/865020505"},{"boilertext":"\"Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1985,\" <i>Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University</i> 45, no. 1 (1986): p.16–42","citation":"\"Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1985,\" <i>Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University</i> 45, no. 1 (1986): p.16–42, p. 40, p. 41 (illus.)","date":1986,"id":521,"uri":"https://www.jstor.org/stable/3774653"},{"boilertext":"David Stuart, \"An Early Maya Shell at Princeton,\" <EM>Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University </EM>48, no. 2 (1989): 37–39.","citation":"David Stuart, \"An Early Maya Shell at Princeton,\" <EM>Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University </EM>48, no. 2 (1989): 37–39., figs. 1–2, p. 37","date":1989,"id":3101,"uri":"https://www.jstor.org/stable/3774733"}],"nowebuse":"False","periods":[{"id":12493,"period":"Formative Period","alphasort":"Formative Period","begindate":-1800,"enddate":200,"displayperiod":"Late Formative Period or Early Classic Period","displaydate":null}],"department":"Art of the Ancient Americas","attribute_groups":[{"id":2199317,"term":"Art of the Ancient Americas","termtype":"Collecting Area"}],"daterange":"A.D. 1-500","dateend":300,"depicted":[],"titles":[{"title":"Shell depicting a marine deity","titletype":"Primary Title","displayorder":1}],"hasimage":"true","creditlinerepro":"","objectnumber":"y1985-48","inscribed":null,"texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"<p>\n\tSeptember 20, 1985, The Lands Beyond, Ltd., New York, sold to the Princeton University Art Museum [1].\n</p>\n<p>\n\tNotes:\n\t<br />\n\t[1] According to a The Lands Beyond invoice in the curatorial file.\n</p>","remarks":null},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"<i>Tuertos </i>(Spanish for “one-eyed”) are characterized by their missing eye; loosely hanging, asymmetrical tongue; and a face that appears paralyzed on one side. 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