Effigy
Vessels - Traditional Forms - Whistles - more!
Peru
- Moche
- Inca
- Olmec
- Maya
- Mound
Builders
Cloth
and Clay: Communicating Culture This is an excellent site from the
Textile Museum of Canada and Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art. Let
the Objects Speak gives you detailed information about selected works
in the exhibit. Learn who made the piece, why and what they mean. Explore
the region. Learn
how the art is made. Resources
for teachers - see more
from the collection - high quality images - Explore by region. Interdisciplinary
activities.
South
American Ceramics - Logan Museum. Shows ceramics from Ecuador, Peru,
Venezuela and Columbia. You will get many ideas for a lesson.
Peru
Image Collection - Ceramics from various regions
Chavin,
Vicus, Viru, and Pucara Ceramics
Chimu,
Lambayeque and Inca Ceramics
Paracas,
Nazca and Recuay Ceramics
Pashash,
Cajamarca, Moche, Tiahuanaco, and Lima Ceramics
Huari,
Santa, Chancay and Ica-Chincha Ceramics
Nasca Bowl and Vicus Whistling vessel
(uses Quicktime)
Early
Nazca Effigy vessel Fowler Museum
Nasca
Killer Whale The
Spirit of Ancient Peru - Tribal Arts.com
Ceramics
of South American Cultures - Logan Museum
Moche
Portrait Vessels (Links page)
Logan Museum Chimu
(click on thumbnails)
Chimu
incised bowl
Ancient
Chimu Artifacts The Chimú style followed the Moche, arising around
800 AD and continuing until the Inca conquest around 1400. Logan Museum (click on thumbnails)
Ancient
Chimu Artifacts The Chimú style followed the Moche, arising around
800 AD and continuing until the Inca conquest around 1400. Logan Museum (click on thumbnails)
Pre-Columbian Art
Brief description of the different cultures of pre-Columbian Peru. Peru
Travel and Tourist Center.
Peruvian Whistling
Vessels (Entheosound) Some background information. Whistles were last made by the Chimu. The
ones on this site were made by contemporary potter, Don Wright.
Peruvian
whistle vessels Some
background information. Click on the link to listen
to a Peruvian whistle.
Peruvian
Whistle Lesson Plan (Ocarina) from Skutt (pdf file)
Art of
the Inca
Inca
Bottle
Olmec Art
Four
pages of Olmec Ceramics (and
stone) Compare
to Mayan Ceramics
Olmec
artifacts Logan Museum
Met
Museum Mesoamerica Timeline
Mayan
Ceramics
Met
Museum Maya Timeline Maya
to AD 500
Mayan
Ceramics Alcala Gallery. Four pages of images. These are all
traditional forms. Some polychrome - some with carved designs.
Mayan
Ceramics from the Logan Museum
Mexico
and other Regions
Met
Timeline Mexico 1000BC - 1 AD Mexico
1 to 500 AD
Mexico-
Veracruz artifacts from the Logan Museum
Mexico
West Coast Central
Mexico Oaxaca
Veracruz
Artifacts The classic culture of the central gulf coast of Mexico is
referred to as "Veracruz", after the modern state which embraces
the majority of their terrain. Logan Museum – Veracruz
(click on thumbnails)
Images of Eternity- West Mexican Tomb Figures
Presenting Ancient ceramic shaft-tomb
figures from the West
Mexican states of Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima, and Michoacán. Recently,
archaeologists and art historians have been making progress in
understanding the cultures of ancient West Mexico, putting tomb figures
back into context. Be sure to view the image gallery.
Jaguar Effigy Vessels
Vessels from Costa Rica. See also Peruvian
Effigy Jar, Peruvian
Spout Vessel, Mexican
Wheeled Feline Figure, Feline
Effigy Jar
Ceramics
from Costa Rica and Panama Logan Museum
Taino – pre-Columbian culture of the Caribbean
Taino World
Mound
Builder Cultures
Mississippian
Artifacts The Mississippian, Quapaw and Caddo mound builders
produced the finest pottery of prehistoric North America. The
Mississippians produced pottery of great durability and high artistic
merit. Read about other Mississippian artifacts. Students may like to
learn about the game played with discoidals.
Information
on Missouri Head Pots - lesson materials compiled by Jay
Ballanger
Logan Museum - Middle Mississippi Culture
Logan Museum - Related cultures (similar to
Mississippi)
Southwest
Native Americans
Aztec Ruins
(Native Americans from New Mexico- not Aztec culture)
Click to see ceramics
from this area. More
Aztec pottery
Many more effigy
figures may be found in the Southwest
Native American Resources and Southwest Internet
Lesson.
NOTE
TO TEACHERS WHO USE THIS PAGE:
Many of the resources I had linked are no longer online. If you find some
sources to replace them, please let me know (email
link on home page).
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