HW #1

Anthony Tse                                                                                                               9/26/2013

This Teotihuacan sculpture is a cylinder on a rectangular base. The sculpture itself is made from stone and contains red pigment. The cylinder on top has patterns craved in to the face, however the base contains no cravings. The cylinder is about the size of a human head and the rectangular base is roughly the size of ta human chest. The symbols in the center of the cylinder refer to Tialoc, the rain god of central Mexico.

This plow shape made of wood resembles a crocodile. Crocodiles played a central role in the culture if the latmul people. This piece was part of a larger canoe craved from a massive log. The scale of the prow indicates that the canoe was capable of holding fifteen to twenty men. Towards the rear of the shape appears to be a smaller crocodile and a disproportionate                                                                     human figure.