Maya Codices: Translation Website

 Mayan Almanac, Museo de América, Madrid: http://www.mayacodices.org/almanacs.asp


Mayan Almanac, Museo de America, Madrid: http://www.mayacodices.org/almanacs.asp


 Page 56 of the Madrid Codex http://www.mayacodices.org/Dating.aspzx


 Paris Codex, Full codex can be found at: http://www.famsi.org/mayawriting/codices/pdf/paris_love.pdf




Full PDF Scans of the Grolier, Dresden, Paris, and Madrid codices: http://www.famsi.org/mayawriting/codices/marhenke.html

Codex Murua: Colonial Inca

The Murua Codex was authored by  Fray Martín de Murúa, a priest, and Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, an indigene, who included in their works a great number of illustrations. Currently held in the British museum.

 Colonial Contact With the Spanish: http://www.lumenartis.net/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=193&language=en




 Inca Women: http://www.lumenartis.net/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=193&language=en




 An Inca King: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/projects/featured_project_inca_ushnus/studying_ushnus/ethnohistory/ethnohistory_codex_murua.aspx



Inca Roads: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/projects/featured_project_inca_ushnus/studying_ushnus/ethnohistory/ethnohistory_codex_murua.aspx

Incan Architecture and Mummies

Incan Walls in Cuzco



Sun Temple of Qosqo  1438  Cuzco,Peru architecture
http://www.cusco.info/cusco_travel_information.htm

 

Incan Mummies

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/09/photogalleries/mummy-pictures/photo4.html
 
 

 http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/incas.htm

Aztec Codexes: The National Museum of Anthropology and History, Mexico City

Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia: http://www.bnah.inah.gob.mx/index.php

Bandiano Codex 1552: http://www.justa.com.mx/?p=33961 












Azoyú Codex 1565: http://www.arqueomex.com/S2N3nHistorias102.html

Olmec Artifacts and Structures

All artifacts on this post: http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/olmecs.htm


Pendants:

Monkey

Crocodile

Duck Bill

 Jaguar Vessel:



Mirrors:


Olmec Ballplayer:



Oaxaca Werejaguar Masquette:



 Spoon:
 

 Figurines:

 

Colossal Heads:

La Venta

San Lorenzo

The Dresden Codex: Pre-Colombian Maya

    


http://www.famsi.org/mayawriting/codices/dresden.html

Incan Artifacts: Peabody Museum

Narrow Neck Vessel with Human Head, Late Horizon, Peru: http://peabody.yale.edu/collections/search-collections?ant



1 Pottery bottle in shape of standing human holding cup and staff; part of rim chipped off. Height 8 1/4". Chimu-Inca, probably from the Central Coast, Peru: http://peabody.yale.edu/collections/search-collections?ant



Aryballus. Inca. From Azuay Province, Ecuador: http://peabody.yale.edu/collections/search-collections?ant

Inca/ Pre-Incan (Nasca) Artifacts from the British Museum

Miniature gold llama figurine, Peru, Inca, about AD 1500: http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/aoa/i/inca_gold_llama.aspx

 

Vessel in the form of a digging stick, Peru, 15th-16th century: http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/aoa/i/inca_digging_stick_vessel.aspx

 

Vase with faces, Nasca culture (200 BC - AD 600), From Peru: http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/aoa/v/vase_with_faces.aspx

 

 

Double spout and bridge vessel with hummingbirds, Nasca culture (200 BC - AD 600), From Peru:http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/aoa/d/double_spout_and_bridge_vessel.aspx

 

 

Nasca Lines: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/03/nasca/hall-text/1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mayan Artifacts and Glyphs

Tortuguero Box via World Digital Library:http://www.wdl.org/en/item/2658/#centerX=0.5&centerY=0.22093981863149217&zoom=1

 

 

Monumental Jaguar Sculpture: http://www.wdl.org/en/item/2659/#q=maya&qla=en

 

Collection of Drawings Copied from the Original Figures: Discovered in the Pueblo of Palenque (1787): http://www.wdl.org/en/item/519/#q=maya&qla=en

 

 

British Museum:

Yaxchilan lintel 15 Maya, Late Classic period (AD 600-900)From, Yaxchilán, Mexico: http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/aoa/y/yaxchil%C3%A1n_lintel_15.aspx

 

 

Incan Quipu

British Museum:

Quipu, Peru, 15th-16th century:http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/aoa/i/inca_cotton_khipu.aspx



Felipe Guaman POma de Ayala- Nueva corónica y buen gobierno (1615): http://www.kb.dk/permalink/2006/poma/info/en/frontpage.htm

Aztec Documents/Artifacts

Tribute Roll: http://www.wdl.org/en/item/3248/#zoom=0.5921810768919737&centerX=0.5626182449252471&centerY=0.5827536664817425



BRITISH MUSEUM 

Wooden ceremonial shield with mosaic inlay, 15th-16th century AD, From Mexico, An intricate mosaic which illustrates the Mexica universe: http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/aoa/w/wooden_shield_with_mosaic.aspx

Wooden spear thrower (atlatl), Mexica*, AD 1325-1521: http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/aoa/w/wooden_spear_thrower_atlatl.aspx

 

Group of three pottery figurines, Mexica*, AD 1325-152: http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/aoa/g/group_of_pottery_figurines.aspx