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Bare-chested female ceramic figure wearing a multistrand necklace with a sizable pendant and a decorated head cover.
Representations of Power in Ancient Coastal Ecuador
Artistic representations of power emerged from multiple cultural traditions in coastal Ecuador during the period between 300 BCE and 600 CE.
Florencio Delgado Espinoza
May 7
Red and white double-chambered ceramic bottle with a seated human figure holding a Spondylus shell
Wari Imperial Art
The artistic expressions of the Wari and Tiwanaku societies dominated the Central Andes for nearly five hundred years (600–1000 CE).
José Ochatoma Paravicino
March 6
Red and white double-chambered ceramic bottle with a seated human figure holding a Spondylus shell
El arte imperial wari
Tanto la sociedad wari como la tiwanaku prepararon el terreno para imperios andinos posteriores.
José Ochatoma Paravicino
March 6
Dark smooth bannerstone carved in the shape of a double-bitted axe
Bannerstones: Ancient Indigenous Stone Carvings, North America (6000–1000 BCE)
Bannerstones were made by nomadic hunter-gatherer peoples in the eastern half of North America between 6000 and 1000 BCE during the Archaic period.
Anna Blume
February 18
Detail of hand colored pen and ink rebus letter consisting of horizontal lines of images and letters.
Love is Blind: Rebuses in The Met Collection
Explore European rebuses in The Met collection with Nancy Rosin, a volunteer cataloguer in Drawings and Prints.
Nancy Rosin
February 14
A red and white ceramic vessel with sculptural figures on the deck arranged in a ritual scene
The Art of the Recuay
In the first millennium CE, several communities in the northern highlands of Peru shared a distinctive tradition that is known today as the Recuay.
Hugo C. Ikehara–Tsukayama
January 31
Detail of a carved human figure finial with hands clasped at its chest, with designs traced in white against the black surface.
Mutuaga Oitau – The Carved Man
Mutuaga’s spatula at The Met is a product of innovation and adaptation in the face of sweeping colonial and missionary incursions into the Territory of Papua.
Sylvia Cockburn and Susan Abel
January 28
On the left, a two-faced headdress, known as a dance crest, with horns. On the right, a crocodilian dance crest with curving horns.
Reconciling Repairs on Cross River Dance Crests
A team of conservators and scientists have been investigating a selection of West African dance crests that will soon be on display.
Katherine McFarlin
December 6, 2024
Gold and silver nose ornament in the shape of a face wearing a crescent-shaped nose ornament, large earspools, and a turbaned headdress
El trabajo del metal entre las comunidades andinas del primer milenio e.c.
Los metales fueron recursos muy preciados por los antiguos peruanos, estimados por su importancia dentro de la cosmología de sus comunidades.
Luisa Vetter Parodi
December 5, 2024
Gold pendant of a human figure wearing an elaborate headdress
Metalwork in Ancient Colombia
Ancient Colombia was home to societies that created numerous styles of metalwork from 500 BCE to the sixteenth century.
Héctor García Botero
December 5, 2024