General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . raphic style of the Aztec andMixtec are represented by original paint-ings on cloth and by skillful reproduc-tions. A post-Conquest land map andgenealogical tree from Tlaxcala throwsmuch light on dress and costume fiftyyears after the Conquest. The Zapotecand Maya writing was expressed by highlyconventionalized signs. On the Maya casts long inscriptions relating to thedates of astronomical phenomena maybe found. Aztec writing can be read,Maya writing partly deciphered. Jewelry: The cases down the center ofthe hal
General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . raphic style of the Aztec andMixtec are represented by original paint-ings on cloth and by skillful reproduc-tions. A post-Conquest land map andgenealogical tree from Tlaxcala throwsmuch light on dress and costume fiftyyears after the Conquest. The Zapotecand Maya writing was expressed by highlyconventionalized signs. On the Maya casts long inscriptions relating to thedates of astronomical phenomena maybe found. Aztec writing can be read,Maya writing partly deciphered. Jewelry: The cases down the center ofthe hall show priceless examples of Mid-dle American jewelry, fade was the sub-stance most prized and there are severallocal styles of working it. The Americanvariety of jadeite and nephrite is distinctfrom the Asiatic type. Especially impor-tant are the Zapotec and Olmec collec-tions, which include two of the finestspecimens in the world. Gold was es-teemed only as an easily malleable metalbut the workmanship on the Mexicanpieces and the design of the Costa Rican [>3fi] 5i*% A*\l.
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