2024-07-20 13:42:39
The exhibition Mesoamerican Huastec women. Goddesses, warriors y governorsgives an account of the role that women played in the political and economic sphere of this culture, prior to the Spanish invasion and has aroused the public’s interest in the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicagoin Illinois, United States, with an influx of “22,661 visitors,” according to the report INAH it’s a statement.
The exhibition is made up of 130 pieces, many of them exhibited to the public for the first time, such as life-size stone sculptures, clay figurines alluding to fertility, vases, stone carvings of deities y rulers, stone jewelry, snails y shells.
The exhibition is part of a reflection that the institute recognizes is recent, due to discoveries archaeological.
“The discovery of the two sculptures of the Young Woman of Amajac, the first in 2021 and the second in 2023, in the municipality of Poplar, Temapache In Veracruz, it generated part of the reflection on the role of women in pre-Hispanic times.
Due to the characteristics of the headdress seen in both pre-Columbian carvings, specialists theorize that they correspond to the same elite character, represented at different times and places,” the text says.
Curated by specialists from the INAH Veracruz Center, María Eugenia Maldonado Vite and David Morales Gómez, the exhibition offers a tour in which, based on archaeological elements, we learn about the political, military, religious, social and family roles that women had in this cultural region, from the Preclassic period to the Mesoamerican Postclassic.
The exhibition will conclude on July 21.
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