NAYMLAP: The Piercing Vision
An entry for The Met x FLORA Museum Challenge
A thousand years ago, a Sicán ruler on Peru's north coast was buried wearing a mask of hammered gold and cinnabar red its winged eyes marked with the Sicán Deity's "piercing vision," believed to guide...
NAYMLAP: The Piercing Vision
An entry for The Met x FLORA Museum Challenge
A thousand years ago, a Sicán ruler on Peru's north coast was buried wearing a mask of hammered gold and cinnabar red its winged eyes marked with the Sicán Deity's "piercing vision," believed to guide...
ÙRHỌ̀TỌ̀ (The Altar Remembers) a 42-second film imagining the first night the Met's Benin altar tableau comes home.
The source is an 18th-century cast-brass ùrhọ̀tọ̀ (ancestral altar tableau) with an iyọ́bà a queen mother and her attendants, made at the Court of Benin, taken in...