Pre-Columbian Art and Architecture, Image review for Final

Maya, Rio Azul tomb painting, Peten,

the murals on the side of the walls are meant to represent the watery underworld. The body would be occupying the underworld.

Maya, Caracol, Chichen Itza

The spanish name of this sturcutre refers to the spiral layout of its interior

Teotihuacano, Temple of Feathered Serpent, Teotihuacan, Mexico

The feathered serpent is depicted on the temple’s exterior.

Aztec, Coyolauhqui Stone Disk

This sculpture shows the goddess dismembered after being thrown down a mountain.

Atzec, Altar of the Frogs at Temple to Tlaloc, Temple Mayor, Tenochtitlan

The frogs symbolize the croaking of frogs that the Aztecs thought announced the coming of the rainy season.

Paracas, Embroidered Mantle with medicine People Figures

The medicine people figures are holding hallucinogenic mushrooms

Moche, Vessel of a owl-headed medicine woman

the owl-headed woman represents the transformation medicine people would undergo when taking hallucinogens.

Wari or Tiwanaku, four-cornered hat

unusual hat would have been considered more valuable than godl among the Wari and Tiwanaku

Inca, Colcapata (checkerboard) tunic

These tunics were made for memebers of the Inca military to wear

Francisco chivantito, Virgin of Montserrat, Oil on cavas.

Inca royal estate of Chinchero is depicted in this painting.