Written by Nicholas Hellmuth
On March 11, 2025
Deer Iconography in Classic Maya Art Part 1, Just Deer, No Hunting Scenes, 75 pages with 65 photos and drawings.
Deer in Maya Art, Iconography Part II, Deer in Kerr Rollouts and Deer in Hellmuth Digital Rollouts, Rollout Drawings from FLAAR Illustrators and Rollout Drawings by Dana G. Moot II, 193 double-width pages with 192 rollouts, photos, and drawings.
Deer Hunters’ Headdresses and Conch Shell Musical Instruments The same Hunters’ Headdresses were worn by many Maya Ballplayers, Part III of Iconography of Maya Deer. 121 double-width pages with over 159 rollouts, photos, and drawings.
Deer Hunting Hats worn as Headdresses by Maya Ballplayers, Iconography of Maya Deer, Part IV. 51 pages with 28 photos, including rollouts, drawings, and rollout drawings.
440 pages of text including 372 rollout photos, rollout drawings, plus photos and drawings in addition to the rollouts. So, if you are curious about deer in Maya iconography this series is available to you. We greatly appreciate the illustrations that were sent to us by archaeologists and iconographers—they are all credited in the captions. Illustrations from books and articles are cited in the captions.
This corpus of illustrations makes it possible to share documentation on the iconography of deer in Classic Maya art.