Guide leaflet (1901) (14766185224)

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Title: Guide leaflet

Year: 1901 (1900s)

Authors: American Museum of Natural History

Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history

Publisher: New York : The Museum

Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library

Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO

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dshall describe again in connection withjewelry. Yet to manufacture the ordinaryimplements of everyday life required a con-summate mastery of an obdurate material.To detach in a single effort the thin blades ofobsidian used as razors and scalpels forceremonial blood letting necessitated asskilful a coordination of strength and skillas did the patient flaking of the great leaf-shaped sacrificial knives. Some of the axesground from hard stones like jade and ser-pentine are aesthetically satisfying in theiruseful symmetry. This same pride in crafts-manship, which was not unlike that of amedieval smith, seems to have dominatedeven the manufacture of an arrowhead everyfacet of which shows the skilled impress ofthe workers hand. AxciEXT Miiinoiis The manufacture of mirrors gives yetanother aspect of Central American capa-bility. There were in that region relativelyfew substances that could take a polish highenough to give a reflection. Glass and bronzewere unknown, and copper never seems to

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Right:—This mosaic has as itsmatrix a human skull cut away inback to form a mask. It is one ofthe treasures of the British Mu-seum. The lighter bands areturquoise and the darker, lignite Mosaic Mosaic working \sas one of(he most elegant of CentralAmerican crafts, ant) colorreproductions alone can giveits true value. The woodenmask (taken like the two otherillustrations on this page fromSaville, 1922) was purchasedfrom Cosimo de Medici for thePrehistoric and EthnographicMuseum in Rome, for two andone half francs. It must havebeen part of the loot from theconquest

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1901

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