Arts of Native + Ancient America Links

< Funerary Mask, 10th–11th century
Peru; Lambayeque
Gift and Bequest of Alice K. Bache, 1974, 1977 (1974.271.35)

Anthropology Resources 
Includes pages on the sites of Palenque, Teotihuacán, Chichén Itzá, and Monte Albán; funerary art of West Mexico; and several pages on various aspects of the codices.

Arts & History: Virtual Forum of Mexican Culture

Aztecs [EXHIBITION]
Royal Academy of Art, Nov. 16, 2002-April 11, 2003

BEARC - Boundary & Archaeology Research Center
Includes the Center for Maya Research (CMR) + the Center for Ancient American Studies (CAAS). Publisher of Research Reports on Ancient Maya Writing as well as the journal Ancient America. 

Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia (Does not include on-line catalog)

 

The British Museum « Compass » Page: Anuuraaq: Clothing the Arctic

The British Museum « Compass » Page: Native North America: The Stonyhurst Collection

Cultura de Los Andes NEW
Wide ranging compilation of links to different sites

Cultura Yagán NEW
Hosted by the Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales

FAMSI --Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies
Links to Precolumbian Sites.

Search the FAMSI Collections
Search all of the FAMSI Collections with a single word or phrase and get a list of results from Bibliografía Mesoamericana, Kerr Portfolio, Maya vase Database, John Montgomery and Linda Schele Drawing Collections. You will also find a link to the new Topic Index, with nested folders containing a wide range of topics on Mesoamerican cultures, excellent for those new to the subject. <>

Iberoamerican Institute
The Institute houses Europe‘s largest library specialized in Ibero-American culture. Site contains online catalogue (OPAC) of the Ibero-American Prussian Heritage Inst. + Art Library.

IFEA (Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos)
Creado en 1948, IFEA es un centro de investigación pluridisciplinaria del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Francia. Su sede está en Lima pero tiene una vocación regional con acciones en cuatro países andinos: Perú, Bolivia, Colombia y Ecuador.

INAH

Institute for Mesoamerican Studies

Kerr Maya Vase Archives 
Searchable database of Maya rollout photography by Justin Kerr.

Mayan Epigraphic Database Project 
Consists of a relational database of glyphs ("gnumbers"), images, phonetic values ("pvalues"), and semantic values ("svalues") according to the consensus among various American Mayanists (MacLeod and Reents-Budet 1994). Also present is the beginning of an archive of digitally transcribed Mayan texts.

Mesoweb 
Precolumbian Art Research Institute site. Focuses particularly on the site of Palenque and contains several image banks and databases, including Merle Greene Robertson's rubbings of inscriptions, as well as original scholarly and popular articles, glyph-by-glyph photos of inscriptions, timelines, etc.

Quipu
“Dedicated to Researchers of Andean Archaeology”San Diego State University Library + Information Access

The Sport of Life and Death : the Mesoamerican Ballgame
Sponsored by the Mint Museum of Art and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

University of Texas at Austin Dept. of Art and Art History
Provides web links to archives, museum sites, excavation sites, bibliographies, and image collections.

Museums 
Click here to go to Ethnography Museums page

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection (Washington, DC)

INAH - Directory of museums

INAH: Museums

Museo de las Culturas Prehispanicas (Jalisco, Mexico)

Museo del Oro (Banco de Republica, Bogota)

Museo del Templo Mayor

Museo Nacional de Antropologia (Mexico City)

University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology