General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . the hallwhose makers are absolutely unknown,but whose style is distinctive. Conceiv- [ 133 « 5 oi i<og ably in time we may be able to assignthem to the speakers of some one of thosefifty languages recorded for Mexico, afact which in itself indicates that in Mid-dle America there were tribes not em-pires. Nature of Objects: The majority ofobjects shown in the Hall are made olpottery, stone, bone, shell, and metal, be-cause these substances best resist the de-structive action of time and weather andare preserved
General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . the hallwhose makers are absolutely unknown,but whose style is distinctive. Conceiv- [ 133 « 5 oi i<og ably in time we may be able to assignthem to the speakers of some one of thosefifty languages recorded for Mexico, afact which in itself indicates that in Mid-dle America there were tribes not em-pires. Nature of Objects: The majority ofobjects shown in the Hall are made olpottery, stone, bone, shell, and metal, be-cause these substances best resist the de-structive action of time and weather andare preserved through the , the wooden drums in the Az-tec case and the obsidian mirror with thewooden frame are great treasures, sinceonly a handful of examples of the woodcarvers art survived the Conquest. Architecture: The varied and impos-ing temple architecture of Middle Amer-ica may be estimated by the models dis-tributed throughout the hall. The Mayabuildings of which we have examplesranging through the span of their historyshow how a sculptured platform evolved.
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