Art of the Americas Answers

This sculpture is known as the Maya Head of a Young Woman. It shows a young woman with carefully modeled facial features and an elaborate arrangement of hair and ornaments. The elongated shape of her head reflects the Maya practice of deliberately shaping infants’ skulls. This practice was associated with ideals of beauty and social status.

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This is a petroglyph hunting scene from the Coso Range in California. Indigenous people made it by etching through the dark desert varnish to expose the lighter rock beneath, and Coso rock art was created over many generations. The panel shows hunters among a large group of animals, especially bighorn sheep. It may record or relate to communal hunting, an important part of life in the region.

This piece is entitled, Anthropomorphs, and was found in Utah. To create this piece, the painted used his/her fingers and yucca fiber brushes to apply reddish pigment made from iron oxide to the rock.

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This is an Olmec colossal head, a monumental sculpture carved from a large block of stone. The heads depict human faces with distinctive features and often show the person wearing a helmet-like headdress. The Olmec people created this type of sculpture.