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Francisco Corrales Ulloa talking in front of a gold plaque in the Arts of the Ancient Americas galleries
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Archaeologist Francisco Corrales Ulloa reflects on the use of animals as symbols in Precolumbian art and the ongoing importance of preserving cultural heritage.
September 16
Visualization of Oceania from a top down hemispheric perspective
Sean Connelly's Spheric Oceania offers an alternative cartography, mapping Oceania as a cosmic container of ancestral connection.
Maggie Wander and Sean Connelly
August 20
The backs of Maia Nuku and Max Hollein as they look up at Bisj poles in the Arts of Oceania galleries
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Join curator Maia Nuku to celebrate the renovation and reopening of the Arts of Oceania galleries in the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing.
Maia Nuku
July 24
Joanne Pillsbury and Laura Filloy Nadal standing in front of a female sculpture in the Ancient Americas galleries of the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing
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Join curators Joanne Pillsbury and Laura Filloy Nadal to celebrate the renovation and reopening of the Arts of the Ancient Americas galleries in the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing.
Joanne Pillsbury and Laura Filloy Nadal
July 17
Nilda Callañaupa Alvarez looks at a weaving in the Arts of the Ancient Americas textile gallery
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“For me, living and producing textiles goes along with your life, along with your age, along with your everyday activity, that's why it is a living art, it’s not a piece that's from the past.”
July 14
Villagers in Omadesep climbing up ladder-like scaffolds to install tall bisj poles
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Opening title card of the Ancient Americas Animated Map
A new state-of-the-art digital map welcomes and orients visitors upon entering the Ancient American Art galleries.
Hugo C. Ikehara–Tsukayama, Geoffrey Wallace, and Sofia Ortega-Guerrero
May 23