Art of the Americas & Oceanic Art

Chavín de Huántar

• Lanzón Stele
• Relief sculpture
• Nose ornament

Artist/Culture: Chavín
Medium: Stone (granite)

• Nose ornament: hammered gold alloy

Mesa Verde Cliff Dwellings

Artist/Culture: Ancestral Puebloan/Anasazi
Medium: Sandstone

Yaxchilán

• Structure 40
• Structure 33
• Structure 23, Lintel 25

Artist/Culture: Maya
Medium: Limestone

Great Serpent Mound

Artist/Culture: Mississippian (Eastern Woodlands)
Medium: Earthwork/effigy mound

Temple Mayor (Main Temple)

• Coyolxauhqui stone
• Calendar stone
• Olmec-style mask

Artist/Culture: Mexica (Aztec)
Medium: Stone

• Coyolxauhqui Stone: volcanic stone
• Calendar stone: basalt
• Olmec-style mask: jadeite

Ruler’s Feather Headdress (probably of Motecuhzoma II)

Artist/Culture: Mexica (Aztec)
Medium: Feathers (quetzal and cotinga) and gold

City of Cusco

• Curved wall of Qorikancha and Church of Santo Domingo
• Walls at Saqsa Waman

Artist/Culture: Inca
Medium: Andesite

Maize Cobs

Artist/Culture: Inca
Medium: Sheet metal/repoussé, metal alloys

City of Machu Picchu

• Observatory
• Intihuatana stone

Artist/Culture: Inca
Medium: Granite

All-T’oqapu Tunic

Artist/Culture: Inca
Medium: Camelid fiber and cotton

Frontispiece of the Codex Mendoza

Artist/Culture: Viceroyalty of New Spain
Medium: Ink and color on paper

Bandolier Bag

Artist/Culture: Lenape (Delaware tribe, Eastern Woodlands)
Medium: Beadwork on leather

Transformation Mask

Artist/Culture: Kwakwaka’wakw
Medium: Wood, paint, and string

Painted Elk Hide

Artist/Culture: Attributed to Cotsiogo (Cadzi Cody) / Eastern Shoshone
Medium: Painted elk hide

Black-on-black Ceramic Vessel

Artist/Culture: Maria Martínez and Julian Martínez/Puebloan
Medium: Blackware ceramic

Nan Madol

Artist/Culture: Saudeleur Dynasty
Medium: Basalt boulders and prismatic columns

Moai on platform (ahu)

Artist/Culture: Rapa Nui
Medium: Volcanic tuff figures on basalt base

‘Ahu ‘ula

Artist/Culture: Hawaiian
Medium: Feathers, fiber

Staff God

Artist/Culture: Rarotonga
Medium: Wood, tapa, fiber, feathers

Female deity

Artist/Culture: Nukuoro
Medium: Wood

Buk mask

Artist/Culture: Torres Strait Islander
Medium: Turtle shell, wood, fiber, feathers, shells

Hiapo (tapa)

Artist/Culture: Niue
Medium: Tapa or bark cloth, freehand painting

Tamati Waka Nene

Artist/Culture: Gottfried Lindauer
Medium: Oil on canvas

Navigation Chart

Artist/Culture: Marshall Islands
Medium: Wood and fiber

Malagan Mask

Artist/Culture: Papuan
Medium: Wood, pigment, fiber, shell

Presentation of Fijian mats and tapa cloths to Queen Elizabeth II

Artist/Culture: Fijian
Medium: Multimedia performance (costume; cosmetics, including scent; chant; movement; and pandanus fiber/hibiscus fiber mats), photographic documentation