General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . 19 Domination of Mexi-can Peoples. Mexican Period in Yucatan,Mixtec Period in Oaxaca, Aztec Period inValley of Mexico. There are specimens shown in the hall [4] whose makers are absolutely unknown, burwhose style is distinctive. Conceivably in:ime we may be able to assign them to thespeakers of some one of those fifty languagesrecorded for Mexico, a fact which in itselfindicates that in Middle America there were:ribes not empires. Nature of Objects: The majority of ob-jects shown in the Hall are made
General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . 19 Domination of Mexi-can Peoples. Mexican Period in Yucatan,Mixtec Period in Oaxaca, Aztec Period inValley of Mexico. There are specimens shown in the hall [4] whose makers are absolutely unknown, burwhose style is distinctive. Conceivably in:ime we may be able to assign them to thespeakers of some one of those fifty languagesrecorded for Mexico, a fact which in itselfindicates that in Middle America there were:ribes not empires. Nature of Objects: The majority of ob-jects shown in the Hall are made of pottery,itone, bone, shell, and metal, because thesesubstances best resist the destructive actionof time and weather and are preserved:hrough the centuries. Therefore, the wood-m drums in the Aztec case and the obsidiannirror with the wooden frame are great:reasures, since only a handful of examples)f the woodcarvers art survived the Con-pest. Architecture: The varied and imposingemple architecture of Middle America may)e estimated by the models distributed I 567 I <°$.
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