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1986    The Teotihuacan Cave of Origin: The Iconography and Architecture of Emergence Mythology in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest. Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics 12:51–82.
1987    A Representation of the Principal Bird Deity in the Paris Codex. Center for Maya Research, Washington, D.C.
1988a  The Albers Collection of Pre-Columbian Art. Hudson Hills Press, New York.
1988b  A Study of Classic Maya Scaffold Sacrifice. In Maya Iconography, edited by Elizabeth P. Benson and Gillett G. Griffin, pp. 331–351. Princeton University Press, Princeton.
1989a Itzam Cab Ain: Caimans, Cosmology, and Calendrics in Postclassic Yucatán. Center for Maya Research, Washington, D.C.
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