This tetrapod (four-legged) vessel reflects how the ancient Maya visualized the world across three i
This tetrapod (four-legged) vessel reflects how the ancient Maya visualized the world across three interconnected levels: the celestial overworld, the earthly middleworld, and the watery underworld of the dead. This expansive idea of the world and the place of humans within it has been displaced since European colonization in the 1500s, when land came to be divided into a series of geopolitical borders. The Maya vessel, now on view in the exhibition Climate in Crisis: Environmental Change in the Indigenous Americas, serves as a reminder of the ways that colonial worldviews contradict Indigenous understanding of the environment, and the effects of these tensions on national and international climate policies today. Posted by Joseph ShaikewitzMaya artist. Tetrapod Bowl with Lid, 350–450. Ceramic, pigment. Brooklyn Museum; Ella C. Woodward Memorial Fund, 64.217a–b. Creative Commons-BY. -- source link
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