Word: pre-columbian
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...escaped the atomic destruction of the Third World War), Dr. Poole discovers the remnants of a decayed civilization on the west coast of North America. In once proud and loud California there vegetates a sallow, stupefied tribe of helots whose technology is not much superior to that of the pre-Columbian Indians and whose morality is rather worse...
Miguel Covarrubias is one of Mexico City's busiest men. Besides studying Chinese, he is working on an ambitious work on pre-Columbian art in the Western Hemisphere (to be finished by 1948), and teaching Indian arts at the National School of Anthropology. He is preparing an illustrated edition of Pearl Buck's translation from the Chinese, All Men Are Brothers; he has sketched out two gigantic mural maps of Mexico for the lobby of the big new Hotel del Prado. Yet he has time for some painting of his own, and time also...
...only decent Peruvian artifacts were buried in museums. Most stores sold shoddy, cast silverware and tritely patterned blankets. Bailey, who had acquired a ripe background digging the best teakwood and tapa cloth out of Java and Oceania, knew exactly what to do: hit out for the sources of pre-Columbian handicrafts and discover the lost techniques...
...Idea Was Fun: Visitors to the gallery found themselves in a world as whimsically engaging as first-rate Disney. The pre-Columbian art of the Indians of Western Mexico had a freshness of its own; none of the stern beauty of Aztec forms or the glum formality of Mayan relics. When the Indians were not laughing at themselves, they were good-naturedly caricaturing someone else. The dominant note was exaggeration: humpbacks had overpowering humps; in erotic figures phallus outweighed...
...shipment to Spain as bullion. The few surviving objects were mostly buried deep in ancient tombs. Last week Mexico's Institute of Anthropology and History announced the discovery of 200 prehistoric gold ornaments in Oaxaca. In Brooklyn, the museum of art opened a small, comprehensive show of pre-Columbian gold, silver and jade from the Americas...