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Title:

Pre-Columbian art from Central America and Colombia at Dumbarton Oaks / Colin McEwan and John W. Hoopes, editors ; with additional contributions by Harriet F. Beaubien [and thirty others].

Publisher:

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

xxv, 768 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 32 cm

Subject:

Dumbarton Oaks--Catalogs.
Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art--Catalogs.
Dumbarton Oaks.
Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art.
Indian art--Central America--Catalogs.
Indian art--Colombia--Catalogs.
Indians of Central America--Antiquities--Catalogs.
Indians of South America--Colombia--Antiquities--Catalogs.
Indian art.
Indians of Central America--Antiquities.
Indians of South America--Antiquities.
Central America.
Colombia.
Catalogs.
Catalogs.

Other Authors:

Dumbarton Oaks.
Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art.
McEwan, Colin, editor.
Hoopes, John W., editor.
Beaubien, Harriet F., author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 713-745) and indexes.

Contents:

The history of the Central American and Colombian collection at Dumbarton Oaks / Juan Antonio Murro -- Jadeworking / John W. Hoopes, David Mora-Marín, Brigitte Kovacevich -- The anthropomorphic celtiform pendant theme of the jade tradition in Costa Rica / David Mora-Marín -- A noninvasive approach to the study of jade artifacts from Central America / Julie Lauffenburger, Bryan R. Cockrell, Glenn Gates, John W. Hoopes, Brigitte Kovacevich, David Mora-Marín -- Metallurgy in Costa Rica / Patricia Fernández Esquivel -- Monumentality and portability stone spheres and gold ornaments from the Diquís Delta / Francisco Corrales Ulloa -- Resurrecting Playa Venado, a Pre-Columbian burial ground in Panama / Nicole E. Smith-Guzmán, Luís A. Sánchez Herrera, Richard G. Cooke, Warwick Bray, Claudia P. Díaz, Máximo Jiménez Acosta, Stewart D. Redwood, Anthony J. Ranere -- Funerary rituals among the elite of the Grande River chiefdom, Panama preparations for the final voyage of a powerful Coclé warrior / Julia Mayo Torné, Carlos Mayo Torné, Mercedes Guinea Bueno -- Technical analysis of metals from Panama / Harriet F. Beaubien, Kim Cullen Cobb, Ainslie Harrison -- Early metalwork in Caribbean Colombia and Southern Central America / Warwick Bray, Richard G. Cooke, Stewart D. Redwood -- Nahuange metalwork from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Northern Colombia, 100-1000 CE: development and relations with neighboring areas / Juanita Sáenz Samper -- Funerary contexts of Herrera and Muisca goldwork recent data from Nueva Esperanza, Sabana de Bogotá, Colombia / Diana Isabel Calderón, Sebastián Rivas Estrada.

Summary:

"Catalogue of the collection of Pre-Columbian Art from Central America and Colombia at Dumbarton Oaks. The catalogue, written by leading international scholars of Pre-Columbian art history and archaeology, contains detailed analyses of specific works of art along with thematic essays situating these works within the broader context of greater Central American culture"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Pre-Columbian art at Dumbarton Oaks ; number 5

ISBN:

0884024695
9780884024699

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1238131723

LCCN:

2020042809

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)