#precolumbian art

[dyke-delphinia]

3D Reconstruction of Tenochtitlán by Thomas Kole

#history #art #mesoamerica #archaeology #antiquities #mexico #aztec #indigenous #indigenous history #precolumbian #precolumbian art #tenochtitlan #my posts

[memories-of-ancients]

Jade bead necklace, Olmec, 1200-900 BC

from The Walters Art Museum

#history #antiquities #art #ancient history #ancient art #jewelry #jewellery #olmec #indigenous art #precolumbian art #precolumbian

[treasure-of-the-ancients]

Jade mask, Olmec, 900 - 400 BC

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

#history #antqiuities #art #precolumbian art #jade #olmec #ancient art #ancient history

[jstor]

Batman? Never heard of him. Is he anything like these 11th-16th c. humanoid-bat gold figures from what are now Panama and Costa Rica?

These images come from The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Cleveland Museum of Art, two great collections on JSTOR that are free and open to everyone.

#art of the americas #precolumbian art #indigenous americans #indigenous art #batman #batmen #bats #gold! #jstor

[blatantescapism]

I was just in Detroit, for reasons, and stopped in at their Detroit Institute of Arts

and now I have to compose an email to the curation team

because I believe that they are Wrong about this pot:

The display label said “Bowl Painted with Children Spinning Yarn, about 400, Ceramic, Unknown artist, Nasca culture, Peru.” (The collection label is “Bowl Decorated with Men Spinning, between 200 BCE and 200 CE, Nazca, Precolumbian” which is a weird discrepancy but not the point)

The point is, this simply isn’t what spinning looks like. I don’t think anyone in human history has attempted to make yarn this way. It is certainly not how the Nasca bead spindle or the modern Southern Quechua pushka are used.

I’m fairly certain that they are actually holding slings, slingshots. Virtually unchanged from the Nasca culture to the modern Southern Quechua, with a tassel at one end and a slit pouch.

@tlatollotl care to give me a vibe check? before I compulsively pester an institution?

#undescribed #hand spinning #spinning #handspinning #yarnblr #museum #museum curator #nazca #quechua #peru #precolumbian #precolumbian art

[bishopsbox]

source: bishopsbox. Thanks to Seth Anderson (Flickr)

Giant olmec head, "El Rey" (The king).

El Rey, Giant olmec head

In November 2008, LLILAS celebrated the arrival of a special work of art on campus. The Universidad Veracruzana, one of Mexico’s most prominent universities, presented the institute with a colossal Olmec head, a replica of the iconic sculpture known as San Lorenzo Monument 1, or El Rey.The original, now housed in the Museo de Antropología in Xalapa, Veracruz, is considered a signature piece of pre-Columbian Olmec culture and a world-class art object that represents New World civilization as emblematically as the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacán or the ruins of Machu Picchu. One of seventeen colossal heads still in existence, San Lorenzo Monument 1 was found by noted archaeologist Matthew Stirling in the 1940s. His discoveries, and those of other archaeologists in Mexico during this time, unearthed for the world the culture of the Olmec, an ancient civilization that flourished in southern Mexico 1500-400 BCE and significantly influenced later cultures such as the Maya and Aztec.The replica that now sits at the entry to LLILAS and the Benson Latin American Collection is made of solid stone and weighs 36,000 pounds. It was sculpted by Ignacio Pérez Solano, a Xalapa-based artist, who has spent his career exploring the history of the Gulf Coast and Mesoamerica. Pérez Solano meticulously reproduced San Lorenzo Monument 1 inch by inch, recreating the powerful lines and imposing features of the original work.Pérez Solano began creating replicas of Olmec heads under the initiative of Miguel Alemán Velasco, who as governor of Veracruz from 1998 to 2004 endeavored to make Olmec culture better known beyond the borders of Mexico. Reproductions of other colossal heads can be found at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and the Field Museum in Chicago, among other locations. Miguel Alemán Velasco was present for the dedication ceremony at LLILAS on November 19, 2008, which also featured remarks by UT President William Powers and his counterpart, Raul Arias Lovillo of the Universidad Veracruzana. Fidel Herrera Beltrán, current Governor of Veracruz, also spoke, as did Olmec scholars from the U.S. and Mexico.

#olmec #olmecas #cabeza olmeca #giant olmec head #precolumbian art #mexico #sculpture #archeology

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Vessel in the form of a prone creature.

Date: 100 B.C.–A.D. 200

Culture: Zapotec

Period: Formative

Place of origin: Mexico, Oaxaca, Central Valley of Oaxaca

Medium: Fine-grained grayware ceramic

#ancient #ancient art #history #museum #archeology #ancient sculpture #ancient history #mexican #mexico #native #oaxaca #precolumbian #precolonial #zapotec #formative #100 b.c. #a.d 200

[mexicanwanderingsoul]

Shout out to depictions of death in Mexican culture fr. Gotta be one of my favorite genders:

#mexican history #mexican culture #mexican #mexico #syncretism #mexica #día de muertos #prehispanic #precolumbian #mexican art #mexican cinema #macario #santa muerte #lgbt #mine

[ownencyclopedia]

☀Miniature Dress | Ica

Colorful bird feathers were highly prized items in ancient Peru and textiles covered with them are among the most spectacular and luxurious works made in the Precolumbian world. This miniature feathered dress is one of a large group of similar garments reportedly found in an offering at Ullujaya in the lower Ica Valley in southern Peru. The miniatures are one-fourth to one-third the size of full-sized garments

#art of the ancient world #ancient art #peru #Precolumbian world #bird feathers #Ica

[scollardauctions-auctionservices]

Check out our auction for tomorrow, Friday, April 19th! We've got incredible ancient antiquities from around the world, you won't want to miss it. Mother's Day is around the corner, find something unique for your mom today!

AUCTION DAY TOMORROW!

#artifacts #ancientart #antique #antiquedecor #antiqueguns #archaeology #history #antiques #archeology #ancient #art #homedecor #museum #artifact #handmade #relics #arrowheads #interiordesign #arrowhead #relichunting #interiordecor #swords #armsandarmour #weapons #flintlock #musket #cutlass #dagger #katana #precolumbian

[dadaonice]

Back to cuneiform school

#red #Cuneiform #logos #graphic design #script #language #ethnic #Native American #Indigenous Americans #American Indians #precolumbian #art #drawings #red line

[zsorosebudphoto]

Tallas precolombinas no Convento do Carmo, Lisboa, Portugal, 1-06-23

(A primeira é Mochica, as outras dúas son Mexicas)

#Convento do Carmo #Lisboa #Portugal #1-06-23 #photography #photo #photographers on tumblr #aesthetic #aesthetics #mochica culture #mexica culture #precolumbian #fine arts #sculpture

[memories-of-ancients]

Shell inlaid with a kitty, Nazca culture, Peru, 1st century BC - 7th century AD

from The Cleveland Museum of Art

#history #antiquities #art #ancient history #ancient art #nazca art #nazca #precolumbian #precolumbian art

[treasure-of-the-ancients]

Winged runner ear ornament, Moche culture (Peru), 400 - 700 AD

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

#history #antiquities #art #jewelry #jewellery #ancient art #precolumbian art

[dregdael]

Five suns of the Mexica (Aztec) Mythology as interpreted by me. Clockwise order: Nahui Ehecatl (4-air), Nahui Ocelotl (4-Jaguar), Nahui Atl (4-water), Nahui quiahuitl (4-fiery rain). In the center, Nahui Ollin (4-movement) our sun and our world (representation of the current universe). I might tell the stories of each sun in other posts, lmk if you want that

#art #precolumbian #aztec #mexica #not a meme #mexico #mythology

[piratebay]

🙃🦋🧡 !! 😜

🙃 what’s a weird fact that you know?

omgg i'm hitting the 36 hr mark of Being Awake my brain is being squished with a hydraulic press but.

indohyus, a 47 (48?) mil yr old hoofed mammal fossil is believed to be an ancient ancestor to modern whales and porpoises bc of shared traits like the involucrum, a specialized inner ear bone.

🦋 describe yourself in three words.

uh. intense, eccentric. purposeless.

🧡 a color you can’t stand?

OH no i rly like all colors damn! um. i think what irritates me more are like. colors that make it impossible to read smth or get info because either their saturation is too close together or there is not enough value contrast btwn them.

can't rmr who it is but i went on a blog once where there was neon green and pink text with a light red-lavender background and the post was rly interesting but i couldn't fuckin read it bc it made my eyeballs do flips..

not that i dislike pink or green or lavender in other contexts? thinking now i could've copy pasted it into an text editor but. it was super long and it got to me LOL. sorry that's wordy but ty for asking 😭

#i dropped outta art collge :) teehee #OH or when colors are associated with BRANDS grrr business brr capitalism etc. #😈😈😈 #i WAS gonna talk abt soil degradation and then bel canto singing and theeen first contact btwn europeans n americans + precolumbian #MARKETS lmfao idk. i talk too much abt stuff so i feel like everyone already Knows they already Know what i know cause i Can't Shut uppp :| #BUT hiiii!! im. sleepuy #answers