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Analysis and Conservation of a Wooden Figurine
Recovered from Xmuqlebal Xheton Cave in Southern Belize, C.A.

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Available from FAMSI by request:

Appendix I, Conservation Report of the Smithsonian Center for Materials Research and Education. (SCMRE #5711, Wooden Figurine from Xmuqlebal Xheton’, Belize)

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