Cerámica de los Ancestros: Central America’s Past Revealed, NY

April 18, 2015–December 31, 2017 - This bilingual (English/Spanish) exhibition illuminates Central America’s diverse and dynamic ancestral heritage with a selection of more than 150 objects. For thousands of years, Central America has been home to vibrant civilizations, each with unique, sophisticated ways of life, value systems, and arts. The ceramics these peoples left behind, combined with recent archaeological discoveries, help tell the stories of these dynamic cultures and their achievements. Cerámica de los Ancestros examines seven regions representing distinct Central American cultural areas that are today part of Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. Spanning the period from 1000 BC to the present, the ceramics featured, selected from the museum’s collection of more than 12,000 pieces from the region, are augmented with significant examples of work in gold, jade, shell, and stone.   

Dates:April 18, 2015 10:00 am to December 31, 2017 05:00 pm
Address:1 Bowling Green, New York, New York 10004 , United States
Phone:(212) 514-3700
Contact: National Museum of the American Indian
Website:http://www.nmai.si.edu/explore/exhibitions/item/?id=946