Sky in the Hyacinth House

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Group portrait with “Gai-ten-eh”, successor to Victorio, head chief of Warm Springs Apache

Photographer: Ben Wittick Date: 1885 - 1900? Negative Number 014221

Gai-ten-eh is more often given as Ka-e-te-nay or Kaytennae (sometimes Brass Man Always Out of Cartridges, or Fights Without Arrows). The woman is probably his wife Gouyen (The One who is Wise).

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The masks of prehistoric and ancient Mexico through time.

Mask, Mexico, Gulf Coast, Veracruz, Olmec, 1000-600 BC. Jadeite with traces of cinnabar. AC1992.134.2.

Mask, Mexico, Guerrero, Mezcala, 500 BC -AD 100. Basalt. AC1993.217.4.

Mask, Mexico, Guerrero, Mezcala, 500 BC-AD 1000. Stone. AC1993.217.7.

Mask with Inlaid Teeth. Mexico, Basin of Mexico, Teotihuacan, Teotihuacan, 200-600. Stone with shell inlay. AC1996.146.50. 

Mosaic Mask. Mexico, Chiapas, Maya (?), AD 400-1520. Turquoise, lapis lazuli, and shell. M.71.73.329.

All courtesy of the LACMA, via their online collections.

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Joined couples in ancient Mexican art.

Joined Couple, Mexico, Nayarit, Nayarit, 200 BC- AD 500. AC1996.146.21.

Joined Couple, Mexico, Jalisco, 200 BC- AD 500. M.86.296.84.

Joined Couple, Mexico, Nayarit, 200 BC- AD 500. M.86.296.14.

Couple in the Form of a Whistle, Mexico, Yucatan Peninsula, Campeche, Jaina Island, Maya, AD 600-900. M.86.311.4.

All courtesy of the LACMA, via their online collections.

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