1. Meso-America 1500 BCE - 1500 CE Olmec 1200-900 bce flourished Jaguar
Teotihuacan CE flourished
Pyramid of the Sun, Moon & Queltzalcoatl (Feathered Serpent)
Tlaloc
Maya 1100 BC-1500 CE flourished
Ball court
Bonampak c. 790 CE
Chichen Itza CE
Caracol Temple
Castillo Pyramid
Ball Court
Chacmool – Jaguar King
Aztec CE flourished
Goddess of the Moon Coyolxauhqui

2. Art of the Americas – Pre-Columbian
Meso America & The Andes 1500 BCE-1500 CE

3. Olmec BCE

4. Meso-America Ball Court Begins with Olmec (figure R)
Similar to this one at Monte Alban (Teotihuacan)

5. La Venta Heads
#1 left
#4 below
BCE

6. Tres Zapotes Head, Vera Cruz
La Venta # 3

7. Jaguar – top South American Predator
Olmec Jaguar

8. Olmec Seated Jaguar (were jaguar) San Lorenzo c. 1200-900 BCE 35”
Block-like form
Jaguar merged with human child = were-jaguar

9. Olmec
were jaguars
Obsidian, jade
stone

10. OLMEC
Seated Female Figure with Mirror Ornament. La Venta, Mexico. Jade & hematitel
Crawling baby, ceramic, hollow BC.

11. Once identified as Mayan
Teotihuacan c. 350 CE
Once identified as Mayan

12. View of Pyramid of Sun from Pyramid of Moon
c. 350 BCE

13. Pyramid of the Moon
Teotihuacan c. 350 BCE

14. Temple of Quelzalcoatle (Feathered Serpent) at Teotihuacan c. 300 bce
80 warrior skelatons found beneath temple

15. Qelzalcoatl (feathered serpent)
& Tlaloc (rain god)

16. Map of Maya Empire
c1100 bce CE

17. Mayan Lords stone reliefs (Palenque top)
Mayan Lord 6th wood –
Mayan Lords stone reliefs (Palenque top)

18. Maya Leiden Plate Jade 8 ½”

20. Mayan ball court
Copan c. 800 bce

21. Mayan ball players

22. Maya Bonampak Murals c. 790 CE reconstructed
3 rooms at temple site in Chiapas
Room 2 below R aftermath of battle Aug. 6th 792 ce

23. Bonampak 792

24. “Borgia” Codex 14-15th century

25. Maize god, Palenque stone 750 ce
Moon Goddess Maya, clay
Maize god, Palenque stone 750 ce

26. Temple (caracol), castillo top L & warrior temple top R
Maya Chitzen Itza c CE
Temple (caracol), castillo top L & warrior temple top R

27. Chocmool (Jaguar King) 3’6” high
Chitzen Itza CE
Temple of the Warriors
Chocmool (Jaguar King) 3’6” high

28. Castillo aka Temple of Kukulcan (Feathered Serpent)
Name of King who founded Chichen Itza 9-13th centuries

29. Chitzen Itza Ball Court 9-13th

31. Invaders of Chitzen Itza – the Toltecs. C. 800 & later Aztecs c
Invaders of Chitzen Itza – the Toltecs? C. 800 & later Aztecs c occupy site

33. Aztec Calendar of Sun
15th century, stone

34. Aztec Mother Goddess, Grandmother, Lady of the Serpent , Earth Goddess
COATLICUE
Aztec Mother Goddess, Grandmother, Lady of the Serpent , Earth Goddess
Gives birth to sun, moon, all celestial beings

35. Aztec Moon Goddess Coyolxauhqui 15th century 88” diameter
Brother Huitzilopochtil kills sister for beheading mother

36. Aztec Eagle Warrior, clay 15th century 67”

37. Aztec sacrifice of captives

38. Spanish Conquistador vs Aztec Eagle Warrior 15th century

39. Diego Rivera mural 20th Eagle Warrior & Conquistador

41. Aztec Huitzilopochtli (blue hummingbird obsidian knife God of Sun?)

44. R leg olmec fish monster (top) dragon below)

45. Olmec were-jaguar

49. MAYA
Stela 11 Kaminaljuyu, Guatemala BC Granite x 67.9 x 18.1 cm Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, Guatemala City.
Stela 11 Kaminaljuyu, Guatemala BC Granite x 67.9 x 18.1 cm Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, Guatemala City.

50. MAYA
Maize God
Plate Portraying Enthroned King. Maya Area. AD Ceramic with pigment. Diameter approx. 28 cm. The Art Institution, New York