General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . UJ Oi o X 2 0 o u. •— UJ - z ~B O o H trt <U 3 J 78 MEXICO AND (ESTKM. AMERICA The pottery of (lentral America illustrates as nothing else the remark-ably varied nature of the different civilizations. Every region, in fact, every tribe, has its own distinctive form and ornament. Attention is called to the life-size figure at the left center ofthe hall and the extraordinarily varied figures from the graves in West-ern Mexico in the northwest wall case. The great Zapotec funerary Pottery. THE GODDESS COYOLXAUHQU
General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . UJ Oi o X 2 0 o u. •— UJ - z ~B O o H trt <U 3 J 78 MEXICO AND (ESTKM. AMERICA The pottery of (lentral America illustrates as nothing else the remark-ably varied nature of the different civilizations. Every region, in fact, every tribe, has its own distinctive form and ornament. Attention is called to the life-size figure at the left center ofthe hall and the extraordinarily varied figures from the graves in West-ern Mexico in the northwest wall case. The great Zapotec funerary Pottery. THE GODDESS COYOLXAUHQUI Aztec, Valley of Mexico urns in the southwestern wall case show the grotesque religious concep-tions which dominated the life of the people, while the Costa Ricanpottery shows the imagination exhibited in the decoration of the humblesthousehold utensils. Many of the Central American peoples had a system of ideographicwriting. Alt hough few of the books arc preserved, facsimiles and originalexamples are shown in the Maya and Aztec sections. Thegreat stelae, of which there are many casts, show how the Writing MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA 79 Maya inscribed their calendric computations, and the cast of the hugeAztec Calendar Stone symbolizes time and the method of keeping Sacrificial stone in the center of the hall is a record of the peoplesovercome by one of the Aztec rulers. The various objects shown in this hall are the imperishable remainsof the great civilizations in the past. If the visitor thinks of the elementsof our civilization (textiles, paper, iro
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