Pre-Columbian art from Central America and Colombia at Dumbarton Oaks Colin McEwan and John W. Hoopes, editors ; with additional contributions by Harriet F. Beaubien [and thirty others]
"The final installment in the definitive series of catalogues of the Robert Woods Bliss Collection, Pre-Columbian Art from Central America and Colombia at Dumbarton Oaks examines a comprehensive and expertly curated collection of jade and gold objects from Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia. This lavish catalogue provides over two hundred detailed and illustrated descriptions of objects that span approximately two millennia. Illustrated in detail with hundreds of high-quality photographs in full color and with stunning clarity, these breathtaking works of art reveal the ingenuity, skill, and vision of Indigenous artists and artisans."--Harvard University Press
NMAI copy gift of Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Contents:
The history of the Central American and Colombian collection at Dumbarton Oaks / Juan Antonio Murro -- Jadeworking / John W. Hoopes, David Mora-Marín, Brigitte Kovacevich -- The anthropomorphic celtiform pendant theme of the jade tradition in Costa Rica / David Mora-Marín -- A noninvasive approach to the study of jade artifacts from Central America / Julie Lauffenburger, Bryan R. Cockrell, Glenn Gates, John W. Hoopes, Brigitte Kovacevich, David Mora-Marín -- Metallurgy in Costa Rica / Patricia Fernández Esquivel -- Monumentality and portability stone spheres and gold ornaments from the Diquís Delta / Francisco Corrales Ulloa -- Resurrecting Playa Venado, a Pre-Columbian burial ground in Panama / Nicole E. Smith-Guzmán, Luís A. Sánchez Herrera, Richard G. Cooke, Warwick Bray, Claudia P. Díaz, Máximo Jiménez Acosta, Stewart D. Redwood, Anthony J. Ranere -- Funerary rituals among the elite of the Grande River chiefdom, Panama preparations for the final voyage of a powerful Coclé warrior / Julia Mayo Torné, Carlos Mayo Torné, Mercedes Guinea Bueno -- Technical analysis of metals from Panama / Harriet F. Beaubien, Kim Cullen Cobb, Ainslie Harrison -- Early metalwork in Caribbean Colombia and Southern Central America / Warwick Bray, Richard G. Cooke, Stewart D. Redwood -- Nahuange metalwork from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Northern Colombia, 100-1000 CE: development and relations with neighboring areas / Juanita Sáenz Samper -- Funerary contexts of Herrera and Muisca goldwork recent data from Nueva Esperanza, Sabana de Bogotá, Colombia / Diana Isabel Calderón, Sebastián Rivas Estrada
Summary:
"Catalogue of the collection of Pre-Columbian Art from Central America and Colombia at Dumbarton Oaks. The catalogue, written by leading international scholars of Pre-Columbian art history and archaeology, contains detailed analyses of specific works of art along with thematic essays situating these works within the broader context of greater Central American culture"-- Provided by publisher
