A pretty in pink #TwoForTuesday from
the Harvard Peabody Museum collection:

1. Fetish frog
Yaqui culture, Sonora, Mexico
rhodochrosite w/ turquoise eyes
2.5x5.7x5.9cm
https://collections.peabody.harvard.edu/objects/details/599446

2 Fetish standing bear
Zuñi culture, New Mexico, USA
rhodochrosite w/ turquoise eyes & necklace
7x3.3x3.2cm
https://collections.peabody.harvard.edu/objects/details/599389

#IndigenousArt #NativeAmericanArt #MesoamericanArt

For #OwlishMonday:
polychrome ceramic #owl pot
Mongollon, Casas Grandes
(Paquimé, Chihuahua, Mexico)
1150-1400 CE
18 cm h., 14 cm. dia.
Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian collection 11/9883
#MesoamericanArt #IndigenousArt

For #WorldSnakeDay:
1. #Rattlesnake
#Aztec, 1200-1520 CE
Rhyolite porphyry
2. #Snake Head
Aztec, 1200-1520 CE
Serpentine (very fitting!)
both on display at Dumbarton Oaks Museum
#IndigenousArt #MesoamericanArt

#Caturday:
Reclining #Jaguar, c. 1400-1521
#Aztec artist, Mexico
Volcanic stone
From Brooklyn Museum’s “Climate in Crisis: Environmental Change in the Indigenous Americas” exhibition

“To the Aztec, the jaguar symbolized power, courage, and a warlike attitude. Some of the highest-ranking warriors were called jaguar warriors, and rulers associated themselves with Tezcatlipoca, a deity who sometimes assumed the guise of this powerful predator.”

#MesoamericanArt #IndigenousArt