"Report on research conducted while an O.A.S. fellow and visiting fellow, Dept. of History of Art, Yale University and an expanded transcript of lecture presented at Princeton University for the Symposium ... written to serve as catalog of early classic slides and photographs at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C."

"This present edition is unedited first draft; personal opinions expressed herein will be edited and removed for edition that will be circulated"--P. [ii].

"Bibliography, footnotes, final chapters, etc. will be included in later edition"--P. [ii].

"One aspect of my Yale-OAS fellowships was to prepare for Dumbarton Oaks a catalog of the photographs in museums and private collections taken during 1974-1976 by me for the photo archive of Dumbarton Oaks.... I was also working towards a general survey of classic Maya art for the Museo Popol Vuh...."--P. xx.

"[T]his present paper is a combined report for Yale, for OAS, for Dumbarton Oaks, and for the Museo Popol Vuh"--P. xx.

"[T]he seed of this paper was my slide lecture at the Princeton University symposium [November 1980], 'Iconography of classic Maya vases'"--P. xx.