Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Maya Codices: Translation Website







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

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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

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Incan Artifacts: Peabody Museum

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

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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

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

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Monday, February 11, 2013

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

Nasca culture (200 BC - AD 600) From Peru 

 

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

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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

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

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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

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British Museum:

Yaxchilan lintel 15 Maya, Late Classic period (AD 600-900)From, Yaxchilán, Mexicohttp://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

Inca man holding quipu, device made of strings and knots used to count and record numeric...

Aztec Documents/Artifacts

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

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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