The Environs of Tres Zapotes as the Find-Spot of the Tuxtla Statuette

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 747-764
Author(s):  
John Justeson ◽  
Christopher A. Pool ◽  
Ponciano Ortiz Ceballos ◽  
María del Carmen Rodríguez Martínez ◽  
Jane MacLaren Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Regional Center ◽  
San Andres

The famous greenstone figure known as the Tuxtla Statuette is one of only 12 objects known to bear an epi-Olmec inscription and was the first to become known to scholarship. For more than a century its original find-spot was imprecisely and erroneously identified as lying in the township of San Andrés Tuxtla or, more generally, in the Tuxtla Mountains. Correspondence in the National Anthropology Archives of the Smithsonian Institution documents that the figure was found on the Hacienda de Hueyapan de Mimendi, near the colossal head of Tres Zapotes. Archival research in Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology and the Archivo General del Estado de Veracruz, as well as interviews with descendants of owners of the Hacienda de Hueyapan and the statuette, allow us to confirm several features of the Smithsonian correspondence. The data indicate that the statuette was found within or very near the epi-Olmec regional center of Tres Zapotes and within the township of Santiago Tuxtla.

Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange Across Medieval Saharan Africa, ed. Kathleen Bickford Berzock. Evanston, IL: Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University; Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2019, 312 pp., many colored ill. and maps.

Mediaevistik ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 266-267
Author(s):  
Albrecht Classen
Keyword(s):  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
National Museum ◽  
African Art ◽  
Major Task ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Northwestern University ◽  
Associate Director

This catalog accompanies a fascinating and innovative exhibition documenting the art in medieval Saharan Africa, first shown at the Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, from Jan. 26 to July 21, 2019, then at The Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, from Sept. 21 2019 to Feb. 23, 2020, and finally at the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, April 8 to Nov. 29, 2020. To bring all those very valuable objects together and to organize this exhibit, represents a major task involving many people. Here I want to concentrate only on the catalog itself, magisterially edited by Kathleen Bickford Berzock, Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs, Block Museum of Art.

The Teodoro Vidal Collection: Creating Space for Latinos at the National Museum of American History

2001 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 113-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Stephen Velasquez
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
American History ◽  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Large Collection

During 1997 and 1998 the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History began a series of programs design to augment the Latino presence at the museum through the acquisition and presentation of a large collection from Puerto Rico, The Vidal Collection. This paper looks at the politics of creating a Latino presence at NMAH through the acquisition and presentation of a large Latino collection. Some of the issues to be explored are: how can a (national) Latino space and identity be created in a museum context, how is it contextualized (or re-contextualized) and represented, and what are the institutional ramifications of such initiatives?

A NATIONAL COLLECTION OF MATERIAL RELATED TO THE HISTORY OF PREMATURE INFANT CARE

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 68 (6) ◽  
pp. 762-762
Author(s):  
Audrey B. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Oxygen Consumption ◽  
Perinatal Care ◽  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
Patient Records ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Hospital Records ◽  
History Of ◽  
Care Technology ◽  
Private Collections ◽  
National Effort

An effort is under way to establish a collection of materials which will trace the development of perinatal-care technology in The National Museum of American History at Smithsonian Institution. Readers of Pediatrics are urged to cooperate in this national effort to locate materials of historical interest in back rooms of hospitals and in private collections. The material of interest ranges from incubators (Lion-type used in incubatorbaby exhibits to the present-day models), resuscitation and ventilating devices (delivery-room apparatus, Bloxom Air-Lock, rocking bed, respirators ...), feeding items (gavage equipment, nasal spoons, indwelling tubes ...), photographs, hospital records (statistical reports, examples of patient records ...) and equipment used in landmark investigations (calorimetry, oxygen consumption ...).

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