Chavin Culture
The Andean Highlands of Peru housed this significant pilgrimage site, showcasing its religious and cultural importance.
What is Chavin De Huántar?
Originating from Indigenous tribes of North America, these decorative shoulder bags were often adorned with intricate beadwork and symbols of cultural significance.
What are bandolier bags?
This significant Maya center during the Classic period is renowned for its elaborate carved stone lintels and is located on the south bank of the Usumacinta River in Chiapas, Mexico.
What is Yaxchilán?
This small greenstone sculpture of a human face, found buried in the Temple Mayor, is known nowadays as this.
What is the Olmec mask?
This city served as an axis mundi to the Inca culture.
What is Cusco?
In Spanish, this term translates to "Great spear," referring to the name of the central deity figure in Chavin culture.
What is Lanzon?
Found in various indigenous cultures, these ceremonial masks are used in rituals to facilitate spiritual transformation and connect with ancestral spirits.
What are Transformative masks?
Surprisingly not Shield Jaguar himself, this figure is the common subject of many lintels at Yaxchilán.
Who is Lady Xook?
This bird's iridescent tail feathers were commonly used in creating Aztec feathered headdresses.
What is the quetzal bird?
This sacred shrine was dedicated to the worship of the sun, representing the center point of the Inca empire
What is Qorikancha?
The deity is represented through this form at the temple at Chavin De Huántar.
What is the Lanzon Stela?
These ancient dwellings, built into cliffs by the Ancestral Puebloans, are a significant cultural and archaeological site in the United States.
What are the Cliff Dwellings at Mesa Verde?
Believed to maintain order and communicate with gods,rituals depicted in the lintels at Yaxchilán were common among Maya elites.
What are bloodletting rituals?
The face found on the Aztec Calendar stone is wearing this decorative ornament, one that many Aztec elite would wear.
What is an ear spool?
This site, chosen for its relationship with the Andean Landscape, was the royal estate for the first Inka emperor.
What is Machu Picchu?
Deep inside the temple at Chavin De Huántar, the Lanzon figure would have been receiving offering in this form of matter.
What is liquid form?
This renowned Pueblo potter from New Mexico is celebrated for her black-on-black pottery, which revitalized traditional techniques and brought international acclaim to Native American art.
Who is Maria Martinez?
Traces of these two pigments can still be seen on the limestone lintels at Yaxchilán.
What are red and blue pigments?
The Coyolxauhqui Monolith was found on this deity’s side of the Templo Mayor.
What is Huitzilopochtli?
This precious metal was featured as a medium for many sculptures inside the Qorikancha, and the Spanish were quite happy to take it.
What is gold?
While the meaning is still debated, recent explorations of the galleries and vents of the temple reveal exciting insights into this aspect of Chavín de Huántar.
What are acoustics?
These artifacts, created by Indigenous peoples of North America, often depicted scenes of daily life, ceremonies, and hunts using paints derived from natural materials.
What are Hide Paintings?
The Mayas believed bloodletting rituals must occur in order to keep the balance of this.
What is the cosmos?
The Templo Mayor underwent this many building phases.
What is 7?
These Inka people were seen as "chosen women" and were collected from across the empire to weave fine cloth, make chicha (corn beer), serve gods in shrines, and contribute to religious rituals.
Who were Acllas?