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Title
Maya copador swimmer bowl.
Description
The number three appears to have significance. It appears as three legs, three solid bands, three stepped spiral rings and two of those rings are divided into three quadrants. There are three realms in Mesoamerica: Heaven, the Sky, Earth, the living world, and the Underworld, the land of the dead.
Subject
[Ceramic bowls--Central America, Pottery--Central America, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities, Maya art--Central America, Mayas--Antiquities]
Date
between 900 and 1400
Title
Maya copador swimmer bowl.
Description
The number three appears to have significance. It appears as three legs, three solid bands, three stepped spiral rings and two of those rings are divided into three quadrants. There are three realms in Mesoamerica: Heaven, the Sky, Earth, the living world, and the Underworld, the land of the dead.
Subject
[Ceramic bowls--Central America, Pottery--Central America, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities, Maya art--Central America, Mayas--Antiquities]
Date
between 900 and 1400
Title
Maya copador swimmer bowl.
Description
The number three appears to have significance. It appears as three legs, three solid bands, three stepped spiral rings and two of those rings are divided into three quadrants. There are three realms in Mesoamerica: Heaven, the Sky, Earth, the living world, and the Underworld, the land of the dead.
Subject
[Ceramic bowls--Central America, Pottery--Central America, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities, Maya art--Central America, Mayas--Antiquities]
Date
between 900 and 1400
Title
Maya copador swimmer bowl.
Description
The number three appears to have significance. It appears as three legs, three solid bands, three stepped spiral rings and two of those rings are divided into three quadrants. There are three realms in Mesoamerica: Heaven, the Sky, Earth, the living world, and the Underworld, the land of the dead.
Subject
[Ceramic bowls--Central America, Pottery--Central America, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities, Maya art--Central America, Mayas--Antiquities]
Date
between 900 and 1400
Title
Maya copador swimmer bowl.
Description
The number three appears to have significance. It appears as three legs, three solid bands, three stepped spiral rings and two of those rings are divided into three quadrants. There are three realms in Mesoamerica: Heaven, the Sky, Earth, the living world, and the Underworld, the land of the dead.
Subject
[Ceramic bowls--Central America, Pottery--Central America, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities, Maya art--Central America, Mayas--Antiquities]
Date
between 900 and 1400
Title
Mushroom cup : metate or molcajete.
Description
Small molcajetes are used to grind minerals, earth for colors or plants for medicine and drugs. The shape of this molcajete suggests the cap of a mushroom. Special mushrooms are used to enter hallucinogenic trances by a shaman to access different realities.
Subject
[Stone carving--Guatemala, Pottery--Guatemala, Maya sculpture--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
ca. 500 BC
Title
Mushroom cup : metate or molcajete.
Description
Small molcajetes are used to grind minerals, earth for colors or plants for medicine and drugs. The shape of this molcajete suggests the cap of a mushroom. Special mushrooms are used to enter hallucinogenic trances by a shaman to access different realities.
Subject
[Stone carving--Guatemala, Pottery--Guatemala, Maya sculpture--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
ca. 500 BC
Title
Mushroom cup : metate or molcajete.
Description
Small molcajetes are used to grind minerals, earth for colors or plants for medicine and drugs. The shape of this molcajete suggests the cap of a mushroom. Special mushrooms are used to enter hallucinogenic trances by a shaman to access different realities.
Subject
[Stone carving--Guatemala, Pottery--Guatemala, Maya sculpture--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
ca. 500 BC
Title
Mushroom cup : metate or molcajete.
Description
Small molcajetes are used to grind minerals, earth for colors or plants for medicine and drugs. The shape of this molcajete suggests the cap of a mushroom. Special mushrooms are used to enter hallucinogenic trances by a shaman to access different realities.
Subject
[Stone carving--Guatemala, Pottery--Guatemala, Maya sculpture--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
ca. 500 BC
Title
Mushroom cup : metate or molcajete.
Description
Small molcajetes are used to grind minerals, earth for colors or plants for medicine and drugs. The shape of this molcajete suggests the cap of a mushroom. Special mushrooms are used to enter hallucinogenic trances by a shaman to access different realities.
Subject
[Stone carving--Guatemala, Pottery--Guatemala, Maya sculpture--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
ca. 500 BC
Title
Mushroom cup : metate or molcajete.
Description
Small molcajetes are used to grind minerals, earth for colors or plants for medicine and drugs. The shape of this molcajete suggests the cap of a mushroom. Special mushrooms are used to enter hallucinogenic trances by a shaman to access different realities.
Subject
[Stone carving--Guatemala, Pottery--Guatemala, Maya sculpture--Guatemala, Mayas--Antiquities, Indigenous peoples--Antiquities]
Date
ca. 500 BC
Title
Maya spondylus shell ornaments : circular pendants.
Description
Two circular pendants. Made from shell: spondylus princeps.
Subject
[Decoration and ornament--Central America, Jewelry--Central America, Art--Central America, Mayas--Antiquities]
Title
Maya spondylus shell ornaments : circular pendants.
Description
Two circular pendants. Made from shell: spondylus princeps.
Subject
[Decoration and ornament--Central America, Jewelry--Central America, Art--Central America, Mayas--Antiquities]
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