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Ceremonial Village Scene with a Flying Figure

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Description: Ceremonial Village Scene with a Flying Figure
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Description: Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America
The hollow figure has a vent in the bottom and loose pellets which rattle inside. The body is broad and fat, with very wide shoulders and no breasts. The legs are spread apart and folded beneath the figure...
PublisherYale University Art Gallery
Related print edition pages: pp.156-190
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00095.012
Description: The Art and Architecture of Ancient America: The Mexican, Maya and Andean Peoples
The hundredth meridian, or a line drawn north and south near Toluca, divides ancient Mexico into an eastern half, of high civilizations in densely populated regions, and a western half, of scattered, small, and isolated tribal groupings, whose archaeological history has been recovered only in the last twenty years. In the main, this western history comprises four principal stages: (1) an early era of Olmec style which endured many centuries in Guerrero, with sporadic manifestations farther …
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.189-200
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00123.011
Description: Ancient West Mexico: Art and Archaeology of the Unknown Past
There is a biting chill in the morning air which nips at his toes through the weave in his sandals. His stomach, however, is still warm from the drink of hot cacao and honey that he had heated over an open fire. During the night he had taken shelter in a grove of huamuchil trees that now seem to vibrate from a faint pulsating drumbeat originating in the west. In that direction, just over a low hill of terraced farming plots, the traveler can make out tall poles stretching toward the last of the …
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PublisherArt Institute of Chicago
Related print edition pages: pp.137-149
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00016.011

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