Content Area: 26 Indigenous Americas

Title – 153. Chavín de Huántar site plan

Artist –   The Chavín

Date – pre-1200 B.C.E.

Medium – Stone

Location – Peru

Size - temple height: 60 m

Title – 153. Chavín de Huántar Lanzon Stone

Artist – Chavín civilization

Date – 900-200 B.C.E.

Medium – granite

Location – Peru

Size - ~

Title – 153. Chavín de Huántar Lanzon Stela

Artist – Chavín civilization

Date – 900-200 B.C.E.

Medium – granite

Location – Peru

Size - 15’

Title – 153. Chavín de Huántar, Nose ornament

Artist – Chavín Peoples

Date – 500-200 B.C.E.

Medium – Gold

Location – Peru, North Highlands

Size - 2.3 cm high

Title – 154. Mesa Verde cliff dwellings

Artist – The Pueblo people

Date – 450-1300 C.E.

Medium – sandstone

Location – Mesa Verde National Park, CO, US

Size - ~

Title –155. Yaxchilán, Structure 40

Artist – the Mayans

Date – 8th Century C.E.

Medium – Limestone

Location – Chiapas Mexico

Size - ~

Title –155. Yaxchilán, Lintel 25, structure 23

Artist – Late Classic period

Date – post 709 C.E.

Medium – limestone

Location – Mexico

Size – 109 X 78 X 6 cm

Title-155. Yaxchilán, Structure 33

Artist – the Mayans

Date – 8th Century C.E.

Medium – Limestone

Location – Chiapas Mexico

Size - ~

c. 1300-1500, volcanic stone, found: Templo Mayor, Tenochtitlan (Museo del Templo Mayor, Mexico City;

Olmec mask, c. 1200–400 B.C.E., jadeite, 4 x 3-3/8 x 1-1/4 inches, found in offering 20 buried c. 1470 C.E. at the Aztec Templo Mayor (Museo del Templo Mayor, Mexico City)

The Coyolxauhqui Stone, c. 1500, volcanic stone, found: Templo Mayor, Tenochtitlan (Museo del Templo Mayor, Mexico City

The Sun Stone (or The Calendar Stone), Aztec, reign of Moctezuma II (1502–20), discovered in 1790 at the southeastern edge of the Plaza Mayor (Zocalo) in Mexico City, stone (unfinished), 358 cm diameter x 98 cm depth (Museo Nacional de Antropología)

Title – 158. Ruler’s Feather Headdress

Artist – Unknown Aztec artist

Date – early 16th century

Medium – Feathers (quetzal, coting, roseate spoonbill, piaya), wood, cotton, gold, gilded brass, amate paper

Location – Mexico (current Austria)

Size - ~

Title  – 159. City of Cusco, Qorikancha (main temple/church and convent of Santo Domingo) 

Artist – unknown (Andean Inca Empire)

Date – 1440-1540

Medium – Stone

Location – Peru

Size - ~

Title – 159. Walls at Saqsa Waman (Sacsayhuaman)

Artist – unknown (Andean Inca)

Date – 15th century

Medium – Stone

Location – Peru

Size - 6 m tall ~

Title – 160. Maize Cobs

Artist – unknown (Andean Inca)

Date – 1440-1533

Medium – sheet metal/repoussé, metal alloys

Location – Kuzco, Peru (current Berlin)

Size - 25.7 X 6 X 9 cm

Title – 161. City of Machu Picchu.

Artist – Inca Civilization

Date – 1450-1540

Medium – stone

Location – Machu Picchu, Peru

Size - ~

Title – 161. City of Machu Picchu. Observatory

Artist – Unknown Inca laborers

Date – 1450-1540

Medium – ashlar masonry

Location – Machu Picchu, Peru

Size - ~

Title – Title – 161. City of Machu Picchu.

Intihuatana Stone

Artist – Unknown Incan laborer

Date – 1450-1540

Medium – granite

Location – Machu Picchu, Peru

Size - ~

Title – 162. All-T’oqapu Tunic

Artist – Unknown Inca artist(s)

Date – 1450-1540

Medium – Camelid wool, cotton

Location – Peru

Size - 90.2 X 77.15 cm

Title – 163. Bandolier bag.

Artist – Unknown (Lenni Lenape Tribe)

Date – 1840-1850

Medium — cotton, wool, silk, glass beads, tinned iron, brass, bone

Location – Delaware (Newark Museum)

Size - 29 ½”

Title – 164. Transformation mask

Artist –  Kwakwaka’wakw artist

Date – late 19th century

Medium – (cedar wood, feathers, sinew, cord, bird skin, hide, plant fibers, cotton, iron, pigments) (wood, paint, graphite, cedar, cloth string)

Location – Northwest coast of Canada 

Size - (37 X 57 X 49 cm) (130 cm open)

Title – 165. Painted Elk Hide, Hide painting of Sun Dance

Artist – Cotsiogo

Date – 1890-1900

Medium – elk hide and pigment

Location – Eastern Shoshone, Wind River Reservation, WY

Size - 205.7 X 198.1 cm

Title – 166. Black-on-black ceramic vessel

Artist – Maria Martinez

Date – 1939

Medium – blackware ceramic

Location – Tewa, Puebloan, San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico, US

Size - 11 ⅛” X 13”