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Author: Marshall Howard Saville Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com ISBN: 9781230184241 Category : Languages : en Pages : 36
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...setting, as the imagination may suggest. No native interpretation of its symbolism even has been hitherto sought. And so its meaning rests solely upon what appears to be the idea of friendship, indicated by the two human outlines affectionately holding hands. As such this interesting and impressive memorial stands again as a document unaffixed to any known event. The circumstances making it necessary to state this about so famous and valuable a document may naturally seem regrettable. And even more so is the fact that other belts known by historical reference to have been placed in the hands of Colonial authorities by emissaries of the eastern tribes have neither been kept in the colony, nor is their whereabouts known. One may well wonder what has become of the thirty-two belts of wampum exhibited by the Delawares to the Governor of Pennsylvania about the middle of the eighteenth century, on the occasion of a call upon him on their way to Onondaga. No other belts were even known to be in existence from any source as early as that attributed to the Penn wampum belt until the opportunity arrived for Mr. Hendricks to acquire for the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, two more belts whose derivation is undoubtedly from the same source. These constitute the THE PENN WAMPUM BELTS subject matter of the study which we were invited to make. The outcome is forthwith presented in this paper--the feeble attempt at so late a date, when the associations have been forgotten, to bring them forth as memorials, in a double sense. The general tradition associated with these two later Penn belts seems to coincide with that of the first treaty belt previously mentioned. The three belts may accordingly be regarded as a group of documents in close...
Author: Marshall Howard Saville Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com ISBN: 9781230184241 Category : Languages : en Pages : 36
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...setting, as the imagination may suggest. No native interpretation of its symbolism even has been hitherto sought. And so its meaning rests solely upon what appears to be the idea of friendship, indicated by the two human outlines affectionately holding hands. As such this interesting and impressive memorial stands again as a document unaffixed to any known event. The circumstances making it necessary to state this about so famous and valuable a document may naturally seem regrettable. And even more so is the fact that other belts known by historical reference to have been placed in the hands of Colonial authorities by emissaries of the eastern tribes have neither been kept in the colony, nor is their whereabouts known. One may well wonder what has become of the thirty-two belts of wampum exhibited by the Delawares to the Governor of Pennsylvania about the middle of the eighteenth century, on the occasion of a call upon him on their way to Onondaga. No other belts were even known to be in existence from any source as early as that attributed to the Penn wampum belt until the opportunity arrived for Mr. Hendricks to acquire for the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, two more belts whose derivation is undoubtedly from the same source. These constitute the THE PENN WAMPUM BELTS subject matter of the study which we were invited to make. The outcome is forthwith presented in this paper--the feeble attempt at so late a date, when the associations have been forgotten, to bring them forth as memorials, in a double sense. The general tradition associated with these two later Penn belts seems to coincide with that of the first treaty belt previously mentioned. The three belts may accordingly be regarded as a group of documents in close...
Author: HardPress Publisher: Hardpress Publishing ISBN: 9781314371161 Category : Languages : en Pages : 24
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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author: Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300224672 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 303
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This nuanced account explores Maya mythology through the lens of art, text, and culture. It offers an important reexamination of the mid-16th-century Popol Vuh, long considered an authoritative text, which is better understood as one among many crucial sources for the interpretation of ancient Maya art and myth. Using materials gathered across Mesoamerica, Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos bridges the gap between written texts and artistic representations, identifying key mythical subjects and uncovering their variations in narratives and visual depictions. Central characters—including a secluded young goddess, a malevolent grandmother, a dead father, and the young gods who became the sun and the moon—are identified in pottery, sculpture, mural painting, and hieroglyphic inscriptions. Highlighting such previously overlooked topics as sexuality and generational struggles, this beautifully illustrated book paves the way for a new understanding of Maya myths and their lavish expression in ancient art.
Author: Megan E. O'Neil Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN: 0806188367 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 273
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Now shrouded in Guatemalan jungle, the ancient Maya city of Piedras Negras flourished between the sixth and ninth centuries, when its rulers erected monumental limestone sculptures carved with hieroglyphic texts and images of themselves and family members, advisers, and captives. In Engaging Ancient Maya Sculpture at Piedras Negras, Guatemala, Megan E. O’Neil offers new ways to understand these stelae, altars, and panels by exploring how ancient Maya people interacted with them. These monuments, considered sacred, were one of the community’s important forms of cultural and religious expression. Stelae may have held the essence of rulers they commemorated, and the objects remained loci for reverence of those rulers after they died. Using a variety of evidence,O’Neil examines how the forms, compositions, and contexts of the sculptures invited people to engage with them and the figures they embodied looks at these monuments not as inert bearers of images but as palpable presences that existed in real space at specific historical moments. Her analysis brings to the fore the material and affective force of these powerful objects that were seen, touched, and manipulated in the past. O’Neil investigates the monuments not only at the moment of their creation but also in later years and shows how they changed over time. She argues that the relationships among sculptures of different generations were performed in processions, through which ancient Maya people integrated historical dialogues and ancestral commemoration into the landscape. With the help of more than 160 illustrations, O’Neil reveals these sculptures’ continuing life histories, which in the past century have included their fragmentation and transformation into commodities sold on the international art market. Shedding light on modern-day transposition and display of these ancient monuments, O’Neil’s study contributes to ongoing discussions of cultural patrimony.
Author: Alexander J. de Voogt Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 900417446X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 409
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This exploration of the versatility of writing systems highlights their complexity when they are used to represent loanwords, solve problems of polysemy or when they are adapted to be used for another language. The approaches from different academic traditions provide a varied but expert account.
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