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Title:

Ancient Maya art at Dumbarton Oaks / Joanne Pillsbury ... [et al.], editors ; with additional contributions by Barbara Arroyo ... [et al.].

Publisher:

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

xxvii, 556 p. : chiefly col. ill., maps (some col.) ; 32 cm.

Subject:

Maya art.
Maya art--Catalogs.
Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art--Catalogs.
Dumbarton Oaks--Catalogs.

Other Authors:

Pillsbury, Joanne.
Dumbarton Oaks.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Catalogue entries for shell and organic objects. Adrian Velazquez Castro -- Classic Maya culture, history, and myth / Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos -- Catalogue entries for monuments -- The best of all things : beauty, materials, and society among the classic Maya / Stephen D. Houston -- Catalogue entries for stone vessels -- From stone to jewel : jade in ancient Maya religion and rulership / Karl A. Taube and Reiko Ishihara-Brito -- Catalogue entries for jade objects -- Flint effigy eccentrics / John E. Clark, Fred W. Nelson, and Gene L. Titmus -- Catalogue entries for flint effigy eccentrics -- Classic Maya painted ceramics : artisans, workshops, and distribution / Dorie Reents-Budet and Ronald L. Bishop -- Catalogue entries for ceramic vessels -- Jaina-style figurines / Megan E. O'Neil -- Catalogue entries for jaina-style figurines -- Pre-columbian Maya shell objects : an analysis of manufacturing techniques / Adrian Velazquez Castro -- Catalogue entries for shell and organic objects.

Series:

Pre-Columbian art at Dumbarton Oaks ; no. 4

ISBN:

0884023753
9780884023753

OCLC:

(OCoLC)731372976

LCCN:

2011025025

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)