Title

Maya Blue: Alternative Hypotheses

Creator

Anna O. Shepard

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Publication Date

January 1962

Abstract

Although the stability of the pigment, Maya blue, indicates to Gettens that the blue colorant as well as the attapulgite clay base of the pigment is inorganic, the optical properties and thermal behavior of the pigment suggest the alternative hypothesis that Maya blue is a clay-organic complex with an organic colorant in an inorganic base of attapulgite clay.

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Notes

American Antiquity, Vol. 27, no. 4 (1962).

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

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SFS0073302_00001

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