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Title
Nopiloa ball player wearing a yoke.
Description
Moist clay was pressed into a finely detailed mold of a Maya ballplayer. He wears arm wraps, a yoke around the waist with a hacha, knee pads, and sandals to play the game. His elite status is indicated by his feathered headdress, ear spools, beaded necklace, and his woven garment.
Subject
[Ceramic sculpture--Mexico--Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave), Maya sculpture--Mexico--Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave), Maya art--Mexico--Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave), Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 900
Title
Nopiloa ball player wearing a yoke.
Description
Moist clay was pressed into a finely detailed mold of a Maya ballplayer. He wears arm wraps, a yoke around the waist with a hacha, knee pads, and sandals to play the game. His elite status is indicated by his feathered headdress, ear spools, beaded necklace, and his woven garment.
Subject
[Ceramic sculpture--Mexico--Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave), Maya sculpture--Mexico--Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave), Maya art--Mexico--Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave), Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 900
Title
Nopiloa ball player wearing a yoke.
Description
Moist clay was pressed into a finely detailed mold of a Maya ballplayer. He wears arm wraps, a yoke around the waist with a hacha, knee pads, and sandals to play the game. His elite status is indicated by his feathered headdress, ear spools, beaded necklace, and his woven garment.
Subject
[Ceramic sculpture--Mexico--Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave), Maya sculpture--Mexico--Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave), Maya art--Mexico--Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave), Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 500 and 900
Title
Pair of Maya jade ear flares.
Description
These blue-green jade ear flared have been string cut, chipped, abraded, drilled, and polished to form a flower. The petals represent the four cardinal directions, while the ball an post stands for the verticality of up and down. The design represents the Maya "Quincunx" or the five directions of their world or universe.
Subject
[Jewelry--Central America, Stone carving--Central America, Decoration and ornament--Central America, Maya art--Central America, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities, Mayas--Jewelry]
Date
between 500 and 900
Title
Pair of Maya jade ear flares.
Description
These blue-green jade ear flared have been string cut, chipped, abraded, drilled, and polished to form a flower. The petals represent the four cardinal directions, while the ball an post stands for the verticality of up and down. The design represents the Maya "Quincunx" or the five directions of their world or universe.
Subject
[Jewelry--Central America, Stone carving--Central America, Decoration and ornament--Central America, Maya art--Central America, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities, Mayas--Jewelry]
Date
between 500 and 900
Title
Pair of Maya jade ear flares.
Description
These blue-green jade ear flared have been string cut, chipped, abraded, drilled, and polished to form a flower. The petals represent the four cardinal directions, while the ball an post stands for the verticality of up and down. The design represents the Maya "Quincunx" or the five directions of their world or universe.
Subject
[Jewelry--Central America, Stone carving--Central America, Decoration and ornament--Central America, Maya art--Central America, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities, Mayas--Jewelry]
Date
between 500 and 900
Title
Pair of Maya jade ear flares.
Description
These blue-green jade ear flared have been string cut, chipped, abraded, drilled, and polished to form a flower. The petals represent the four cardinal directions, while the ball an post stands for the verticality of up and down. The design represents the Maya "Quincunx" or the five directions of their world or universe.
Subject
[Jewelry--Central America, Stone carving--Central America, Decoration and ornament--Central America, Maya art--Central America, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities, Mayas--Jewelry]
Date
between 500 and 900
Title
Pair of Maya jade ear flares.
Description
These blue-green jade ear flared have been string cut, chipped, abraded, drilled, and polished to form a flower. The petals represent the four cardinal directions, while the ball an post stands for the verticality of up and down. The design represents the Maya "Quincunx" or the five directions of their world or universe.
Subject
[Jewelry--Central America, Stone carving--Central America, Decoration and ornament--Central America, Maya art--Central America, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities, Mayas--Jewelry]
Date
between 500 and 900
Title
Pair of Maya jade ear flares.
Description
These blue-green jade ear flared have been string cut, chipped, abraded, drilled, and polished to form a flower. The petals represent the four cardinal directions, while the ball an post stands for the verticality of up and down. The design represents the Maya "Quincunx" or the five directions of their world or universe.
Subject
[Jewelry--Central America, Stone carving--Central America, Decoration and ornament--Central America, Maya art--Central America, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities, Mayas--Jewelry]
Date
between 500 and 900
Title
Pair of Maya jade ear flares.
Description
These blue-green jade ear flared have been string cut, chipped, abraded, drilled, and polished to form a flower. The petals represent the four cardinal directions, while the ball an post stands for the verticality of up and down. The design represents the Maya "Quincunx" or the five directions of their world or universe.
Subject
[Jewelry--Central America, Stone carving--Central America, Decoration and ornament--Central America, Maya art--Central America, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities, Mayas--Jewelry]
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
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
Maya shell pectoral.
Description
A triangular section from the interior of a lightning whelk shell has been incised with a kneeling male figure. He holds a knife in his left hand and a large shell in his right. Maya shell pectoral / pendant.
Subject
[Pendants (Jewelry)--Mexico (Yucatan), Maya art--Mexico (Yucatan), Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 520 and 800
Title
Maya shell pectoral.
Description
A triangular section from the interior of a lightning whelk shell has been incised with a kneeling male figure. He holds a knife in his left hand and a large shell in his right. Maya shell pectoral / pendant.
Subject
[Pendants (Jewelry)--Mexico (Yucatan), Maya art--Mexico (Yucatan), Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 520 and 800
Title
Maya shell pectoral.
Description
A triangular section from the interior of a lightning whelk shell has been incised with a kneeling male figure. He holds a knife in his left hand and a large shell in his right. Maya shell pectoral / pendant.
Subject
[Pendants (Jewelry)--Mexico (Yucatan), Maya art--Mexico (Yucatan), Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 520 and 800
Title
Maya shell pectoral.
Description
A triangular section from the interior of a lightning whelk shell has been incised with a kneeling male figure. He holds a knife in his left hand and a large shell in his right. Maya shell pectoral / pendant.
Subject
[Pendants (Jewelry)--Mexico (Yucatan), Maya art--Mexico (Yucatan), Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 520 and 800
Title
Codex style vessel : old God emerges from the mouth of a serpent.
Description
This codex style vessel represents a scene for the underworld, Xilbaba. An aged Maya god emerges from the mouth of the bearded dragon, Ochu Chan. Behind the old God appears the profile image of the Jeslure (sic) God, a god important to Maya nobility. In front of the old god is an offering vessel with human bones, an eyeball, and a severed hand.
Subject
[Pottery--Guatemala, Drinking vessels--Guatemala, Ceramic tableware--Guatemala, Maya art--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 550 and 850
Title
Codex style vessel : old God emerges from the mouth of a serpent.
Description
This codex style vessel represents a scene for the underworld, Xilbaba. An aged Maya god emerges from the mouth of the bearded dragon, Ochu Chan. Behind the old God appears the profile image of the Jeslure (sic) God, a god important to Maya nobility. In front of the old god is an offering vessel with human bones, an eyeball, and a severed hand.
Subject
[Pottery--Guatemala, Drinking vessels--Guatemala, Ceramic tableware--Guatemala, Maya art--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 550 and 850
Title
Codex style vessel : old God emerges from the mouth of a serpent.
Description
This codex style vessel represents a scene for the underworld, Xilbaba. An aged Maya god emerges from the mouth of the bearded dragon, Ochu Chan. Behind the old God appears the profile image of the Jeslure (sic) God, a god important to Maya nobility. In front of the old god is an offering vessel with human bones, an eyeball, and a severed hand.
Subject
[Pottery--Guatemala, Drinking vessels--Guatemala, Ceramic tableware--Guatemala, Maya art--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 550 and 850
Title
Codex style vessel : old God emerges from the mouth of a serpent.
Description
This codex style vessel represents a scene for the underworld, Xilbaba. An aged Maya god emerges from the mouth of the bearded dragon, Ochu Chan. Behind the old God appears the profile image of the Jeslure (sic) God, a god important to Maya nobility. In front of the old god is an offering vessel with human bones, an eyeball, and a severed hand.
Subject
[Pottery--Guatemala, Drinking vessels--Guatemala, Ceramic tableware--Guatemala, Maya art--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 550 and 850
Title
Codex style vessel : old God emerges from the mouth of a serpent.
Description
This codex style vessel represents a scene for the underworld, Xilbaba. An aged Maya god emerges from the mouth of the bearded dragon, Ochu Chan. Behind the old God appears the profile image of the Jeslure (sic) God, a god important to Maya nobility. In front of the old god is an offering vessel with human bones, an eyeball, and a severed hand.
Subject
[Pottery--Guatemala, Drinking vessels--Guatemala, Ceramic tableware--Guatemala, Maya art--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 550 and 850
Title
Codex style vessel : old God emerges from the mouth of a serpent.
Description
This codex style vessel represents a scene for the underworld, Xilbaba. An aged Maya god emerges from the mouth of the bearded dragon, Ochu Chan. Behind the old God appears the profile image of the Jeslure (sic) God, a god important to Maya nobility. In front of the old god is an offering vessel with human bones, an eyeball, and a severed hand.
Subject
[Pottery--Guatemala, Drinking vessels--Guatemala, Ceramic tableware--Guatemala, Maya art--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 550 and 850
Title
Hacha : stylized avian, skull or jaguar.
Description
Depending on your point of view, there are three images of death; a skull, a predatory bird, and a jaguar. The hacha represents the three Mesoamerican realms: death and the underworld, life and the land of the living, and the heavens of the ancestors and the gods. Archaeologists believe the notched hacha type was used as a ballcourt marker.
Subject
[Stone carving--Guatemala, Maya sculpture--Guatemala, Maya art--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 550 and 900
Title
Hacha : stylized avian, skull or jaguar.
Description
Depending on your point of view, there are three images of death; a skull, a predatory bird, and a jaguar. The hacha represents the three Mesoamerican realms: death and the underworld, life and the land of the living, and the heavens of the ancestors and the gods. Archaeologists believe the notched hacha type was used as a ballcourt marker.
Subject
[Stone carving--Guatemala, Maya sculpture--Guatemala, Maya art--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 550 and 900
Title
Hacha : stylized avian, skull or jaguar.
Description
Depending on your point of view, there are three images of death; a skull, a predatory bird, and a jaguar. The hacha represents the three Mesoamerican realms: death and the underworld, life and the land of the living, and the heavens of the ancestors and the gods. Archaeologists believe the notched hacha type was used as a ballcourt marker.
Subject
[Stone carving--Guatemala, Maya sculpture--Guatemala, Maya art--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 550 and 900
Title
Hacha : stylized avian, skull or jaguar.
Description
Depending on your point of view, there are three images of death; a skull, a predatory bird, and a jaguar. The hacha represents the three Mesoamerican realms: death and the underworld, life and the land of the living, and the heavens of the ancestors and the gods. Archaeologists believe the notched hacha type was used as a ballcourt marker.
Subject
[Stone carving--Guatemala, Maya sculpture--Guatemala, Maya art--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 550 and 900
Title
Hacha : stylized avian, skull or jaguar.
Description
Depending on your point of view, there are three images of death; a skull, a predatory bird, and a jaguar. The hacha represents the three Mesoamerican realms: death and the underworld, life and the land of the living, and the heavens of the ancestors and the gods. Archaeologists believe the notched hacha type was used as a ballcourt marker.
Subject
[Stone carving--Guatemala, Maya sculpture--Guatemala, Maya art--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 550 and 900
Title
Maya cylinder vessel.
Subject
[Drinking vessels--Mexico, Pottery--Mexico, Ceramic tableware--Mexico, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 550 and 950
Title
Maya cylinder vessel.
Subject
[Drinking vessels--Mexico, Pottery--Mexico, Ceramic tableware--Mexico, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 550 and 950
Title
Maya cylinder vessel.
Subject
[Drinking vessels--Mexico, Pottery--Mexico, Ceramic tableware--Mexico, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 550 and 950
Title
Maya cylinder vessel.
Subject
[Drinking vessels--Mexico, Pottery--Mexico, Ceramic tableware--Mexico, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 550 and 950
Title
Maya cylinder vessel.
Subject
[Drinking vessels--Mexico, Pottery--Mexico, Ceramic tableware--Mexico, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 550 and 950
Title
Maya cylinder vessel.
Subject
[Drinking vessels--Mexico, Pottery--Mexico, Ceramic tableware--Mexico, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 550 and 950
Title
Face pendant : bibhead.
Description
Jade, jadeite and greenstones were considered a precious material with supernatural qualities associated with water, maize, fertility, and the sky. The bibhead pendant may have been an heirloom handed down from one generation to another generation.
Subject
[Pendants (Jewelry)--Guatemala, Stone carving--Guatemala, Art--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities]
Date
between 600 and 800
Title
Face pendant : bibhead.
Description
Jade, jadeite and greenstones were considered a precious material with supernatural qualities associated with water, maize, fertility, and the sky. The bibhead pendant may have been an heirloom handed down from one generation to another generation.
Subject
[Pendants (Jewelry)--Guatemala, Stone carving--Guatemala, Art--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities]
Date
between 600 and 800
Title
Face pendant : bibhead.
Description
Jade, jadeite and greenstones were considered a precious material with supernatural qualities associated with water, maize, fertility, and the sky. The bibhead pendant may have been an heirloom handed down from one generation to another generation.
Subject
[Pendants (Jewelry)--Guatemala, Stone carving--Guatemala, Art--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities]
Date
between 600 and 800
Title
Face pendant : bibhead.
Description
Jade, jadeite and greenstones were considered a precious material with supernatural qualities associated with water, maize, fertility, and the sky. The bibhead pendant may have been an heirloom handed down from one generation to another generation.
Subject
[Pendants (Jewelry)--Guatemala, Stone carving--Guatemala, Art--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities]
Date
between 600 and 800
Title
Maya flared bowl.
Description
This polychrome ceramic bowl was created with a flaring rim bowl. The bowl's cream slip background has been decorated with brown netted triangles, a red-brown step-fret band, and an orange geometric band.
Subject
[Pottery--El Salvador, Ceramic bowls--El Salvador, Maya art--El Salvador, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 600 and 800
Title
Maya flared bowl.
Description
This polychrome ceramic bowl was created with a flaring rim bowl. The bowl's cream slip background has been decorated with brown netted triangles, a red-brown step-fret band, and an orange geometric band.
Subject
[Pottery--El Salvador, Ceramic bowls--El Salvador, Maya art--El Salvador, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 600 and 800
Title
Maya flared bowl.
Description
This polychrome ceramic bowl was created with a flaring rim bowl. The bowl's cream slip background has been decorated with brown netted triangles, a red-brown step-fret band, and an orange geometric band.
Subject
[Pottery--El Salvador, Ceramic bowls--El Salvador, Maya art--El Salvador, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 600 and 800
Title
Maya flared bowl.
Description
This polychrome ceramic bowl was created with a flaring rim bowl. The bowl's cream slip background has been decorated with brown netted triangles, a red-brown step-fret band, and an orange geometric band.
Subject
[Pottery--El Salvador, Ceramic bowls--El Salvador, Maya art--El Salvador, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 600 and 800
Title
Maya flared bowl.
Description
This polychrome ceramic bowl was created with a flaring rim bowl. The bowl's cream slip background has been decorated with brown netted triangles, a red-brown step-fret band, and an orange geometric band.
Subject
[Pottery--El Salvador, Ceramic bowls--El Salvador, Maya art--El Salvador, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 600 and 800
Title
Maya flared bowl.
Description
This polychrome ceramic bowl was created with a flaring rim bowl. The bowl's cream slip background has been decorated with brown netted triangles, a red-brown step-fret band, and an orange geometric band.
Subject
[Pottery--El Salvador, Ceramic bowls--El Salvador, Maya art--El Salvador, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 600 and 800
Title
Standing figure representing a ballplayer.
Description
During the Mesoamerican ballgame, ballplayers wore special equipment to protect themselves from injury and to help deflect and hit the ball. A rubber ball could be hit with a force that could easily maim or kill a player.
Subject
[Ceramic sculpture--Belize, Maya sculpture--Belize, Maya art--Belize, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 600 and 800
Title
Standing figure representing a ballplayer.
Description
During the Mesoamerican ballgame, ballplayers wore special equipment to protect themselves from injury and to help deflect and hit the ball. A rubber ball could be hit with a force that could easily maim or kill a player.
Subject
[Ceramic sculpture--Belize, Maya sculpture--Belize, Maya art--Belize, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 600 and 800
Title
Standing figure representing a ballplayer.
Description
During the Mesoamerican ballgame, ballplayers wore special equipment to protect themselves from injury and to help deflect and hit the ball. A rubber ball could be hit with a force that could easily maim or kill a player.
Subject
[Ceramic sculpture--Belize, Maya sculpture--Belize, Maya art--Belize, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 600 and 800
Title
Standing figure representing a ballplayer.
Description
During the Mesoamerican ballgame, ballplayers wore special equipment to protect themselves from injury and to help deflect and hit the ball. A rubber ball could be hit with a force that could easily maim or kill a player.
Subject
[Ceramic sculpture--Belize, Maya sculpture--Belize, Maya art--Belize, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
between 600 and 800
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