NYC - AMNH: Colossal Olmec Head - a photo on Flickriver

            This Colossal Olmec Head is a plaster reproduction of an original found at the site of San Lorenzo in Southern Veracruz, Mexico, in 1945.  Weighing about 20 tons, the original is of a kind of basalt that appears to have been brought from an area bout 45 miles to the north.  Like all colossal carved heads found in Mesoamerica, this one is a complete piece in itself, not part of a figure.  It has been carved in the typical Olmec style with a very realistic rendering of a large, broad, puffy face.  This head, like most of the others is thought to be a portrait of powerful rulers from the ancient Olmec civilization and wears a helmet like headdress and large, straight ear ornaments.  Many of the large sculptures at San Lorenzo were purposefully defaced and ritually buried, perhaps by the Olmec themselves.  Only 17 such sculptures have been discovered. 

The American Museum of Natural History's Hall of Mexico and Central America features the diverse art, architecture, and traditions of Mesoamerican pre-Columbian cultures through artifacts that span from 1200 BC to the early 1500s.

The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), located at Central Park West and 79th Street, comprises of 28 interconnected buildings housing 45 permanent exhibition halls, in addition to a planetarium and a library, across 2-million square feet.  The collections contain over 33 million specimens of plants, animals, fossils, minerals, rocks, meteorites, human remains, and human cultural artifacts.  Founded in 1869, the museum opened in the original Victorian Gothic building designed by J. Wrey Mould in 1877.  A southern expansion, a rusticated Richardsonian Romanesque by J. Cleveland Cady, extends 700 feet along West 77th Street and in 1936, John Russell Pope added the overscaled Beaux Arts entrance on Central Park West.

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Taken in: United States / New York / Harsenville (historical) (show map)

Taken on: November 7, 2019

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