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• Herons In Ancient Mayan Art

  
  MY2K — Authority: 121
  From "Animal Figures in the Maya Codices" by Alfred M. Tozzer and Glover M. Allen. Water birds are rare in Mayan art - here are a few herons. Number 1 is from Palenque - the wings are curiously conventionalized. The wings remind me of the ollin sign of the Aztecs. Number 2 shows a warriors headdress from Chichen ...
  1 week ago

• Escuintla Style Art

  
  MY2K — Authority: 121
  ballplayer , photo by telmo32 . Here is a comment by the photographer: "Teotihuacan influenced vessel in the form of a ballplayer. Escuintla style Mexico or Guatemala 600 AD de Young Museum Art of the Americas Golden Gate Park San Francisco" Teotihuacan was a large powerful non-Mayan city in ...
  2 weeks ago

• ANCIENT ICONOGRAPHY FANATICS FORM CULT IN QUEST OF “COOL”

  
  Your Story — Authority: 159
  Ivory Skies, a designer t shirt label launched online mid 2009 that blends ancient wordly iconic art with modern indie rock fashion.
  2 weeks ago

• The collecting history of a black-figured stamnos

  
  Looting matters — Authority: 513
  Next week Bonhams is planning to auction an Attic black-figured stamnos attributed to the Michigan painter (28 October 2009, lot 193; estimate £60,000 - £80,000). The collecting history ("provenance") is provided: "Acquired at a German [sic.] auction, Kunstwerke der Antike , Münzen und Medaillen A.G., Basel, ...
  2 weeks ago

• How Much Is My Mayan Pottery Worth?

  
  MY2K — Authority: 121
  Dear My2K Blog, I recently found a very nice piece of old Mayan pottery in my attic. It seems my great-uncle was along on an archaeological dig back in the early 1900s and carted a bunch of stuff back to his home in New Hampshire. Long story short, his sons wifes nephew didnt want that "old worn out chipped cup" in ...
  3 weeks ago

• Renton Tattoo Art - as seen on S. Third St.

  
  The Picaroon — Authority: 130
  Along a certain block or two radius in the DTR, you can see art in the making . Tattoo art coming alive on the skins of Rentonites and others who have traveled to our land to have colorful work become a part of their being. This is Carlee and this is her birthday tattoo with 15 hours of work already done. Magenta ...
  3 weeks ago

• Speak and Understand Ancient Mayan In Three Easy Steps!

  
  MY2K — Authority: 121
  Piedras Negras Estella 12, detail , photo by suttonhoo . NOVA has made it easy to speak Mayan and know what you are saying. The photo above is a detail from one of the lovely stelae at Piedras Negras in Guatemala. The ruins of Piedras Negras are notable for the fact that scholars can read artists signatures ...
  4 weeks ago

• Deciphering Mayan Pottery

  
  MY2K — Authority: 121
  Vessel with a Seated Lord , photo by unforth . In Minneapolis this weekend, at Hamline University, there is a lecture by Dorie Reents-Budet. She is an expert on ancient Maya pottery. She is a curator of ancient American art. I wanted to drive up there - its pretty close for me - but life intervened. So, as a ...
  4 weeks ago

• Mayan Serpent Head-dresses

  
  MY2K — Authority: 121
  Above is from FAMSIs Dresden Codex, page 43 Above is from Animal Figures in the Maya Codices (1909) by Alfred M. Tozzer and Glover M. AllenBack in 1909, Tozzer and Allen compiled a study of all the animals they found in Maya codices and inscriptions. They werent sidetracked by kooky ideas about 2012 or My2K or alien ...
  8 weeks ago

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