Art of the Americas
Last updated May 2008
ART OF THE AMERICAS: General
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- Art of the Ancient Americas: Introduction in the collection of The Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
- Art of the Americas in the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco: de Young Museum
- Art of the Americas (in The George Ortiz Collection)
- Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- American Indian Art in the collection of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas, with a link to Selected Works in The Collection of The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
- African, Oceanic, and New World Culture s in the collection of the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
- Pre-Columbian Collection, Dumbarton Oaks, with a gallery tour
- Pre-Columbian Meso-America (through AICT: Art Images for College Teaching)
- Precolumbian Art Research Institute
- Timelines of Art History: The World (Mike Gunther), including
- Pre-Columbian Art in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
- National Museum of the American Indian (a Smithsonian Institution)
NORTH AMERICA
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- Ancient Western Hemisphere (through Images from History), with links to:
- 1. Ancient Civilization of the American Southwest
- 2. Ancient Mississippian Civilization (900-1750 A.D.)
- Native North America (through AICT: Art Images for College Teaching)
- North America 8000 B.C. - 1600 A.D. (through the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Timeline of Art History)
- North America (through the British Museum)
- Totem Poles (through The Royal British Columbia Museum, Canada)
- Carving a totem pole at Skidegate, Haida Gwaii
- Alaska's Totem Poles
- Totem Poles (through the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia)
- Canadian Heritage Galleries (through Canadian Heritage Gallery), including links to
- The Notukeu Museum and Archaeology On-line, with links to
- Southwestern United States Rock Art Gallery (Doak Heyser), with links to
- Petroglyphs and Rock Paintings (John F. Campbell), with links to
- Petroglyphs San Rafael Swell, Utah
- Native Basketry: Survival, Beauty (Paula Giese)
- Native American Women Photographers As Storytellers, by Joan M. Jensen, Professor Emerita, New Mexico State University (through Women Artists of the American West, An Internet Course and Interdisciplinary Resource from Purdue University)
- Woven by Grandmothers: 19th Century Navajo Textiles
- Nampeyo Pottery (through the Arizona State Museum), with links to
- The Ruth and Charles Elkus Collection of Native American Art
- Native America (Professor Ron Johnson), with links to:
- The Chilkat Blanket
- Native American Art in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
- Native America in the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art)
- Anasazi Heritage Center, Dolores, Colorado, with links to
- The Anasazi Pueblos
- Pueblo Pottery (through the Internet Public Library), with a link to the Pueblo Pottery Gallery
- Guide to Hopi Kachinas (through McGee's Indian Art Gallery, Hopiland, Keams Canyon, Arizona)
- Images of sites in California: rock art at Burro Flats, Mockingbird Canyon, Olsen Canyon (Photographs Copyright © Clive Ruggles, Leicester University)
- Ancient Americans (through Mysterious Places), with links to:
- Mesa Verde, with links to:
- Chaco Canyon National Monument (through the National Park Service)
- Cliff Dwellings (Katrina Cook, c/o Professor Michael Greenhalgh, Department of Art History, Australian National University)
- Southwest American Indian Ruins (through Howard Partridge's Cupola)
- Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site
- Ancient Architects of the Mississippi, with links to:
- The Mississippian Moundbuilders and their Artifacts
- Mississippian Cultures
- Serpent Mound, Ohio
- The Great Serpent Mound (through ArtsEdNet)
- Serpent Mound State Memorial
- The Great Serpent Mound
- Northern America, in the Ethnological Missionary Museum in the Vatican (through The Holy See, The Vatican)
MESOAMERICA
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- Mesoamerican Cultures and Regions (Edgar Martin del Campo), with links to
- Mesoamerica: Special Topics (through the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Timeline of Art History)
- The Canadian Society for Mesoamerican Studies, with a link to a gallery
- The Olmec World: ritual an Rulership (Gillett G. Griffin)
- Mesoamerican Images (a large selection of royalty free digital images for purchase through AnthroArcheArt.org)
- Olmec and Teotihuacan
- Aztec, Toltec, Cholulatec, Totonac, Chichimec
- Mixtec, Zapotec
- Maya Highlands
- Maya Lowlands
- Maya Yucatan
- Architecture, Restoration, and Imaging of the Maya Cities of Uxmal, Kabah, Sayil and Labná in the Puuc Region, Yucatán, México (Charles S. Rhyne)
- Introduction
- Contents
- Text
- Images
- Selected Examples
- Early Drawings, Prints, & Photographs (1838-1930)
- Aztecs and Maya (through the British Museum World Cultures)
- Central America in the Ethnological Missionary Museum in the Vatican (through The Holy See, The Vatican)
- Ancient Mesoamerican Civilizations (Kevin L. Callahan, University of Minnesota Department of Anthropology), with information about Maya, Mixtec, Zapotec, and Aztec
- Views of Ancient Monuments: Chiapas and Yucatan (Frederick Catherwood, Archt., 1839 and 1841), part of the Mayan Collection of James A. Mcbride II
- Images of sites in Mesoamerica (Photographs Copyright © Clive Ruggles, Leicester University)
- Mesoamerican Photo Archives (David R. Hixson, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University)
- Mesoweb, an exploration of Mesoamerican cultures (Merle Greene Robertson and Joel Skidmore)
- Meso-American Architecture (through the Leo Masuda Architectonic Research Office), with links to
- Teotihuacan: The City of the Gods (Saburo Sugiyama: Arizona State University, Dept. of Anthropology), with movies and an
- The Templo Mayor Museum (Instituto Nacional de Antropología e História, México)
- Tlahuica Ruins Near Cuernavaca (Dr. Michael E. Smith, Professor of Anthropology, University at Albany, New York)
- Mystery of the Maya, with links to:
- Maya Vase Database (Justin Kerr) (through FAMSI: Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies), with a link to the Kerr Collections
- Maya Adventure (Science Museum of Minnesota), with a link to Maya Photo Archive
- Mayan Ruins, photos from Maya archaeological sites in Yucatán and Campeche, Mexico (Copyright © 1996 by Barbara McKenzie), with a clickable map
- Mayan Ruins by Ken Goehring, with links to:
- The Mayan Epigraphic Database Project
- Arte Maya Tz'utuhil Museum (contemporary Tz'utuhil Mayan oil paintings from the highlands of Guatemala)
- Maya Temples (in Japanese, but with pictures), with links to:
- Caracol Archaeological Project
- Chichen Itza (through Mysterious Places)
- Mexico (part of the site Periods in Art History, Anne S. de Luengas, ITESM Campus Tampico), with links to:
SOUTH AMERICA
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