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Title
Macehead : transforming images : 4.
Description
A macehead can symbolize power and authority, but this macehead represents transformation. All the animals depicted on this macehead have the ability to move symbolically or physically from the underworld to the living world to the heavens of gods and ancestors. Individually, they represent different concepts: abundance, fertility, rebirth, renewal, and transformation.
Subject
[Stone carving--Mexico--Colima (State), Sculpture--Mexico--Colima (State), Art--Mexico--Colima (State), Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 300 B.C. and 300 A.D.
Title
Macehead : transforming images : 4.
Description
A macehead can symbolize power and authority, but this macehead represents transformation. All the animals depicted on this macehead have the ability to move symbolically or physically from the underworld to the living world to the heavens of gods and ancestors. Individually, they represent different concepts: abundance, fertility, rebirth, renewal, and transformation.
Subject
[Stone carving--Mexico--Colima (State), Sculpture--Mexico--Colima (State), Art--Mexico--Colima (State), Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 300 B.C. and 300 A.D.
Title
Macehead : transforming images : 4.
Description
A macehead can symbolize power and authority, but this macehead represents transformation. All the animals depicted on this macehead have the ability to move symbolically or physically from the underworld to the living world to the heavens of gods and ancestors. Individually, they represent different concepts: abundance, fertility, rebirth, renewal, and transformation.
Subject
[Stone carving--Mexico--Colima (State), Sculpture--Mexico--Colima (State), Art--Mexico--Colima (State), Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 300 B.C. and 300 A.D.
Title
Obsidian jewelry : crescent-shaped pectorals.
Description
Obsidian is a hard, black volcanic glass that can be worked with ease. Mesoamericans knocked off thin layers or blades from an obsidian core and further refined or shaped their tools or objects by pressing or pushing off small pieces of the stone. Blades were further flattened or worn away with abrasive grits or sands. Holes were drilled or knocked into the blade. These obsidian crescent pendants (jewelry) have been created using the above process.
Subject
[Jewelry--Mexico--Jalisco, Stone carving--Mexico--Jalisco, Art--Mexico--Jalisco, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities, Obsidian]
Date
between 250 B.C. and 250 A.D.
Title
Obsidian jewelry : crescent-shaped pectorals.
Description
Obsidian is a hard, black volcanic glass that can be worked with ease. Mesoamericans knocked off thin layers or blades from an obsidian core and further refined or shaped their tools or objects by pressing or pushing off small pieces of the stone. Blades were further flattened or worn away with abrasive grits or sands. Holes were drilled or knocked into the blade. These obsidian crescent pendants (jewelry) have been created using the above process.
Subject
[Jewelry--Mexico--Jalisco, Stone carving--Mexico--Jalisco, Art--Mexico--Jalisco, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities, Obsidian]
Date
between 250 B.C. and 250 A.D.
Title
Obsidian jewelry : crescent-shaped pectorals.
Description
Obsidian is a hard, black volcanic glass that can be worked with ease. Mesoamericans knocked off thin layers or blades from an obsidian core and further refined or shaped their tools or objects by pressing or pushing off small pieces of the stone. Blades were further flattened or worn away with abrasive grits or sands. Holes were drilled or knocked into the blade. These obsidian crescent pendants (jewelry) have been created using the above process.
Subject
[Jewelry--Mexico--Jalisco, Stone carving--Mexico--Jalisco, Art--Mexico--Jalisco, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities, Obsidian]
Date
between 250 B.C. and 250 A.D.
Title
Obsidian jewelry : crescent-shaped pectorals.
Description
Obsidian is a hard, black volcanic glass that can be worked with ease. Mesoamericans knocked off thin layers or blades from an obsidian core and further refined or shaped their tools or objects by pressing or pushing off small pieces of the stone. Blades were further flattened or worn away with abrasive grits or sands. Holes were drilled or knocked into the blade. These obsidian crescent pendants (jewelry) have been created using the above process.
Subject
[Jewelry--Mexico--Jalisco, Stone carving--Mexico--Jalisco, Art--Mexico--Jalisco, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities, Obsidian]
Date
between 250 B.C. and 250 A.D.
Title
Stone jewelry : wedge shaped pectoral.
Description
These wedge-shaped pendants were created by core flaking and pressure flaking a soft stone. Once the basic wedge shape was produced, it was refined or flattened with abrasive grits or sands. The holes were drilled for suspending the pectoral.
Subject
[Pendants (Jewelry)--Mexico--Nayarit, Jewelry--Mexico--Nayarit, Stone carving--Mexico--Nayarit, Art--Mexico--Nayarit, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 250 B.C. and 250 A.D.
Title
Stone jewelry : wedge shaped pectoral.
Description
These wedge-shaped pendants were created by core flaking and pressure flaking a soft stone. Once the basic wedge shape was produced, it was refined or flattened with abrasive grits or sands. The holes were drilled for suspending the pectoral.
Subject
[Pendants (Jewelry)--Mexico--Nayarit, Jewelry--Mexico--Nayarit, Stone carving--Mexico--Nayarit, Art--Mexico--Nayarit, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 250 B.C. and 250 A.D.
Title
Stone jewelry : wedge shaped pectoral.
Description
These wedge-shaped pendants were created by core flaking and pressure flaking a soft stone. Once the basic wedge shape was produced, it was refined or flattened with abrasive grits or sands. The holes were drilled for suspending the pectoral.
Subject
[Pendants (Jewelry)--Mexico--Nayarit, Jewelry--Mexico--Nayarit, Stone carving--Mexico--Nayarit, Art--Mexico--Nayarit, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 250 B.C. and 250 A.D.
Title
Stone jewelry : wedge shaped pectoral.
Description
These wedge-shaped pendants were created by core flaking and pressure flaking a soft stone. Once the basic wedge shape was produced, it was refined or flattened with abrasive grits or sands. The holes were drilled for suspending the pectoral.
Subject
[Pendants (Jewelry)--Mexico--Nayarit, Jewelry--Mexico--Nayarit, Stone carving--Mexico--Nayarit, Art--Mexico--Nayarit, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 250 B.C. and 250 A.D.
Title
Huastec zoomorphic vessel : bat.
Description
The Huasteca, a northern branch of the Maya, lived in the Panuco River area in Northern Veracruz. They produced a distinctive creamware enhanced with dark red-brown iron oxide. The zoomorphic olla takes the form of a mammal, possibly a bat. Around his neck, he wears a pendant that represents a sliced conch shell.
Subject
[Drinking vessels--Mexico--Pánuco River, Ceramic tableware--Mexico--Pánuco River, Huastec art--Mexico--Pánuco River, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 900 and 1200
Title
Huastec zoomorphic vessel : bat.
Description
The Huasteca, a northern branch of the Maya, lived in the Panuco River area in Northern Veracruz. They produced a distinctive creamware enhanced with dark red-brown iron oxide. The zoomorphic olla takes the form of a mammal, possibly a bat. Around his neck, he wears a pendant that represents a sliced conch shell.
Subject
[Drinking vessels--Mexico--Pánuco River, Ceramic tableware--Mexico--Pánuco River, Huastec art--Mexico--Pánuco River, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 900 and 1200
Title
Huastec zoomorphic vessel : bat.
Description
The Huasteca, a northern branch of the Maya, lived in the Panuco River area in Northern Veracruz. They produced a distinctive creamware enhanced with dark red-brown iron oxide. The zoomorphic olla takes the form of a mammal, possibly a bat. Around his neck, he wears a pendant that represents a sliced conch shell.
Subject
[Drinking vessels--Mexico--Pánuco River, Ceramic tableware--Mexico--Pánuco River, Huastec art--Mexico--Pánuco River, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 900 and 1200
Title
Huastec zoomorphic vessel : bat.
Description
The Huasteca, a northern branch of the Maya, lived in the Panuco River area in Northern Veracruz. They produced a distinctive creamware enhanced with dark red-brown iron oxide. The zoomorphic olla takes the form of a mammal, possibly a bat. Around his neck, he wears a pendant that represents a sliced conch shell.
Subject
[Drinking vessels--Mexico--Pánuco River, Ceramic tableware--Mexico--Pánuco River, Huastec art--Mexico--Pánuco River, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 900 and 1200
Title
Huastec zoomorphic vessel : bat.
Description
The Huasteca, a northern branch of the Maya, lived in the Panuco River area in Northern Veracruz. They produced a distinctive creamware enhanced with dark red-brown iron oxide. The zoomorphic olla takes the form of a mammal, possibly a bat. Around his neck, he wears a pendant that represents a sliced conch shell.
Subject
[Drinking vessels--Mexico--Pánuco River, Ceramic tableware--Mexico--Pánuco River, Huastec art--Mexico--Pánuco River, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 900 and 1200
Title
Huastec zoomorphic vessel : bat.
Description
The Huasteca, a northern branch of the Maya, lived in the Panuco River area in Northern Veracruz. They produced a distinctive creamware enhanced with dark red-brown iron oxide. The zoomorphic olla takes the form of a mammal, possibly a bat. Around his neck, he wears a pendant that represents a sliced conch shell.
Subject
[Drinking vessels--Mexico--Pánuco River, Ceramic tableware--Mexico--Pánuco River, Huastec art--Mexico--Pánuco River, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 900 and 1200
Title
Copper tweezers, crescent pinchers, spirals.
Description
The Tarascans embellished their crescent shaped tweezers with hammered spirals. They were worn as emblems of status or authority.
Subject
[Decoration and ornament--Mexico, Art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 900 and 1200
Title
Copper tweezers, crescent pinchers, spirals.
Description
The Tarascans embellished their crescent shaped tweezers with hammered spirals. They were worn as emblems of status or authority.
Subject
[Decoration and ornament--Mexico, Art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 900 and 1200
Title
Copper tweezers, crescent pinchers, spirals.
Description
The Tarascans embellished their crescent shaped tweezers with hammered spirals. They were worn as emblems of status or authority.
Subject
[Decoration and ornament--Mexico, Art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 900 and 1200
Title
Copper tweezers, crescent pinchers, spirals.
Description
The Tarascans embellished their crescent shaped tweezers with hammered spirals. They were worn as emblems of status or authority.
Subject
[Decoration and ornament--Mexico, Art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 900 and 1200
Title
Playas red incised olla.
Description
There are ten different Playas incised redware styles. This olla has a flared rim, a restricted neck, horizontal shoulder incisions and two diagonal linear designs.
Subject
[Pottery--Mexico--Casas Grandes, Ceramic tableware--Mexico--Casas Grandes, Art--Mexico--Casas Grandes, Ceramic sculpture, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 1280 and 1600
Title
Playas red incised olla.
Description
There are ten different Playas incised redware styles. This olla has a flared rim, a restricted neck, horizontal shoulder incisions and two diagonal linear designs.
Subject
[Pottery--Mexico--Casas Grandes, Ceramic tableware--Mexico--Casas Grandes, Art--Mexico--Casas Grandes, Ceramic sculpture, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 1280 and 1600
Title
Playas red incised olla.
Description
There are ten different Playas incised redware styles. This olla has a flared rim, a restricted neck, horizontal shoulder incisions and two diagonal linear designs.
Subject
[Pottery--Mexico--Casas Grandes, Ceramic tableware--Mexico--Casas Grandes, Art--Mexico--Casas Grandes, Ceramic sculpture, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 1280 and 1600
Title
Playas red incised olla.
Description
There are ten different Playas incised redware styles. This olla has a flared rim, a restricted neck, horizontal shoulder incisions and two diagonal linear designs.
Subject
[Pottery--Mexico--Casas Grandes, Ceramic tableware--Mexico--Casas Grandes, Art--Mexico--Casas Grandes, Ceramic sculpture, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 1280 and 1600
Title
Playas red incised olla.
Description
There are ten different Playas incised redware styles. This olla has a flared rim, a restricted neck, horizontal shoulder incisions and two diagonal linear designs.
Subject
[Pottery--Mexico--Casas Grandes, Ceramic tableware--Mexico--Casas Grandes, Art--Mexico--Casas Grandes, Ceramic sculpture, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 1280 and 1600
Title
Playas red incised olla.
Description
There are ten different Playas incised redware styles. This olla has a flared rim, a restricted neck, horizontal shoulder incisions and two diagonal linear designs.
Subject
[Pottery--Mexico--Casas Grandes, Ceramic tableware--Mexico--Casas Grandes, Art--Mexico--Casas Grandes, Ceramic sculpture, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 1280 and 1600
Title
Copper human face pendant : 1.
Subject
[Pendants (Jewelry)--Mexico, Purépecha art--Mexico, Mixtec art--Mexico, Aztec art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 900 and 1200
Title
Copper human face pendant : 1.
Subject
[Pendants (Jewelry)--Mexico, Purépecha art--Mexico, Mixtec art--Mexico, Aztec art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 900 and 1200
Title
Copper human face pendant : 1.
Subject
[Pendants (Jewelry)--Mexico, Purépecha art--Mexico, Mixtec art--Mexico, Aztec art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 900 and 1200
Title
Copper human face pendant : 1.
Subject
[Pendants (Jewelry)--Mexico, Purépecha art--Mexico, Mixtec art--Mexico, Aztec art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 900 and 1200
Title
Copper human face pendant : 1.
Subject
[Pendants (Jewelry)--Mexico, Purépecha art--Mexico, Mixtec art--Mexico, Aztec art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 900 and 1200
Title
Copper human face pendant : 1.
Subject
[Pendants (Jewelry)--Mexico, Purépecha art--Mexico, Mixtec art--Mexico, Aztec art--Mexico, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 900 and 1200
Title
Spouted ewer with concentric circular designs : tea pot : serving vessel.
Description
This unique serving vessel, in the form of a teapot or ewer, features a funnel opening, a stirrup handle, and a curved spout. The center of the vessel has a depressed top with a protruding button. The artist used a resist slip process to create the white slip design on red slip ground.
Subject
[Drinking vessels--Mexico--Tzintzuntzan Site, Pottery--Mexico--Tzintzuntzan Site, Ceramic tableware--Mexico--Tzintzuntzan Site, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities, Purépecha art--Mexico--Tzintzuntzan Site]
Date
between 1200 and 1532
Title
Spouted ewer with concentric circular designs : tea pot : serving vessel.
Description
This unique serving vessel, in the form of a teapot or ewer, features a funnel opening, a stirrup handle, and a curved spout. The center of the vessel has a depressed top with a protruding button. The artist used a resist slip process to create the white slip design on red slip ground.
Subject
[Drinking vessels--Mexico--Tzintzuntzan Site, Pottery--Mexico--Tzintzuntzan Site, Ceramic tableware--Mexico--Tzintzuntzan Site, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities, Purépecha art--Mexico--Tzintzuntzan Site]
Date
between 1200 and 1532
Title
Spouted ewer with concentric circular designs : tea pot : serving vessel.
Description
This unique serving vessel, in the form of a teapot or ewer, features a funnel opening, a stirrup handle, and a curved spout. The center of the vessel has a depressed top with a protruding button. The artist used a resist slip process to create the white slip design on red slip ground.
Subject
[Drinking vessels--Mexico--Tzintzuntzan Site, Pottery--Mexico--Tzintzuntzan Site, Ceramic tableware--Mexico--Tzintzuntzan Site, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities, Purépecha art--Mexico--Tzintzuntzan Site]
Date
between 1200 and 1532
Title
Spouted ewer with concentric circular designs : tea pot : serving vessel.
Description
This unique serving vessel, in the form of a teapot or ewer, features a funnel opening, a stirrup handle, and a curved spout. The center of the vessel has a depressed top with a protruding button. The artist used a resist slip process to create the white slip design on red slip ground.
Subject
[Drinking vessels--Mexico--Tzintzuntzan Site, Pottery--Mexico--Tzintzuntzan Site, Ceramic tableware--Mexico--Tzintzuntzan Site, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities, Purépecha art--Mexico--Tzintzuntzan Site]
Date
between 1200 and 1532
Title
Spouted ewer with concentric circular designs : tea pot : serving vessel.
Description
This unique serving vessel, in the form of a teapot or ewer, features a funnel opening, a stirrup handle, and a curved spout. The center of the vessel has a depressed top with a protruding button. The artist used a resist slip process to create the white slip design on red slip ground.
Subject
[Drinking vessels--Mexico--Tzintzuntzan Site, Pottery--Mexico--Tzintzuntzan Site, Ceramic tableware--Mexico--Tzintzuntzan Site, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities, Purépecha art--Mexico--Tzintzuntzan Site]
Date
between 1200 and 1532
Title
Spouted ewer with concentric circular designs : tea pot : serving vessel.
Description
This unique serving vessel, in the form of a teapot or ewer, features a funnel opening, a stirrup handle, and a curved spout. The center of the vessel has a depressed top with a protruding button. The artist used a resist slip process to create the white slip design on red slip ground.
Subject
[Drinking vessels--Mexico--Tzintzuntzan Site, Pottery--Mexico--Tzintzuntzan Site, Ceramic tableware--Mexico--Tzintzuntzan Site, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities, Purépecha art--Mexico--Tzintzuntzan Site]
Date
between 1200 and 1532
Title
Pair of ear flares : quadripartite design.
Description
The Olmec and the Maya wore jade or jadeite beads, necklaces, and ear spools. The Maya elite placed a jade bead in the mouths of their dead as a sign of rebirth. The quadrapartite design represents the four cardinal directions and the hole the fifth direction or the Axis Mundi.
Subject
[Jewelry--Guatemala, Decoration and ornament--Guatemala, Stone carving--Guatemala, Maya art--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 900
Title
Pair of ear flares : quadripartite design.
Description
The Olmec and the Maya wore jade or jadeite beads, necklaces, and ear spools. The Maya elite placed a jade bead in the mouths of their dead as a sign of rebirth. The quadrapartite design represents the four cardinal directions and the hole the fifth direction or the Axis Mundi.
Subject
[Jewelry--Guatemala, Decoration and ornament--Guatemala, Stone carving--Guatemala, Maya art--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 900
Title
Pair of ear flares : quadripartite design.
Description
The Olmec and the Maya wore jade or jadeite beads, necklaces, and ear spools. The Maya elite placed a jade bead in the mouths of their dead as a sign of rebirth. The quadrapartite design represents the four cardinal directions and the hole the fifth direction or the Axis Mundi.
Subject
[Jewelry--Guatemala, Decoration and ornament--Guatemala, Stone carving--Guatemala, Maya art--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 900
Title
Pair of ear flares : quadripartite design.
Description
The Olmec and the Maya wore jade or jadeite beads, necklaces, and ear spools. The Maya elite placed a jade bead in the mouths of their dead as a sign of rebirth. The quadrapartite design represents the four cardinal directions and the hole the fifth direction or the Axis Mundi.
Subject
[Jewelry--Guatemala, Decoration and ornament--Guatemala, Stone carving--Guatemala, Maya art--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 900
Title
Pair of ear flares : quadripartite design.
Description
The Olmec and the Maya wore jade or jadeite beads, necklaces, and ear spools. The Maya elite placed a jade bead in the mouths of their dead as a sign of rebirth. The quadrapartite design represents the four cardinal directions and the hole the fifth direction or the Axis Mundi.
Subject
[Jewelry--Guatemala, Decoration and ornament--Guatemala, Stone carving--Guatemala, Maya art--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 900
Title
Zacatecas seated male.
Subject
[Ceramic sculpture--Mexico--Teocaltiche (Jalisco), Art--Mexico--Teocaltiche (Jalisco), Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 250 B.C. and 251 A.D.
Title
Zacatecas seated male.
Subject
[Ceramic sculpture--Mexico--Teocaltiche (Jalisco), Art--Mexico--Teocaltiche (Jalisco), Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 250 B.C. and 251 A.D.
Title
Zacatecas seated male.
Subject
[Ceramic sculpture--Mexico--Teocaltiche (Jalisco), Art--Mexico--Teocaltiche (Jalisco), Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 250 B.C. and 251 A.D.
Title
Zacatecas seated male.
Subject
[Ceramic sculpture--Mexico--Teocaltiche (Jalisco), Art--Mexico--Teocaltiche (Jalisco), Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 250 B.C. and 251 A.D.
Title
Zacatecas seated male.
Subject
[Ceramic sculpture--Mexico--Teocaltiche (Jalisco), Art--Mexico--Teocaltiche (Jalisco), Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 250 B.C. and 251 A.D.
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