English: Artist Virgil Finlay's conceptional drawing of Theodore Moore's "Lost City of the Monkey God". Originally published in The American Weekly, September 22, 1940
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Scanned from the original by Google[dead link] (page 22). Note: The American Weekly appeared as an insert in the Milwaukee Sentinel (paper scanned by Google) among many others, but copyright remained with American Weekly. The copyright was not renewed according to a search of the relevant US copyright records (for the record, the Sentinel's copyright was also not renewed.) Original caption (also in the public domain) reads as follows:
From the tribal legends of the Honduran Indians comes this artist's conception of the Temple of the Monkey God at the peak of its glory a thousand or more years ago: the huge idol of an ape, seated atop a great platform, faced an enormous paved approach whose margins were bordered with grotesque images of monkeys, frogs, and alligators.
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