HOLDINGS FROM CENTRAL AMERICA

The Peabody’s holdings from Central America include many fine Maya collections, as well as related materials from Honduras and Nicaragua and later materials from Mexico. The collections also include significant holdings from lower Central America and the Carribean islands. Among these holdings are: the Maya sites of Copan, Labna, Holmul, Piedras Negras and Uaxactun; type-sherd series from Altar de Sacrificios and Barton Ramie; Playa de los Muertos (Honduras): Ulua Valley polychromes (Honduras); Luna pol ychromes (Nicaragua); artifacts from E.H. Thompson’s work at the Sacred Cenote of Chichen Itza; Aztec figurines; figurines from Jaina and Colima (Mexico): Casas Grandes (Mexico); holdings transferred in 1948 from the Carnegie Institution of Washington; Cocle (Panama); Veraguas (Panama); various collections from the West Indies, especially Puerto Rico.

Related links:
Encounters with the Americas
Altar Q and Copán
Saving the Maya Past for the Future: Copán’s New Sculpture Museum
Ethnographic Holdings from Central America

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