And thats what makes them really exciting to us, as well. This architectural system and building method has been co. RM DYEKET - Lintel from Yaxchilan 690 A.D. CUNO: This episode was produced by Zoe Goldman and Karen Fritsche, with audio production by Gideon Brower and mixing by Myke Dodge Weiskopf. But in Guatemala, in the place particularly where this lintel comes from, looting was actually suppressed by the conflicts between the guerillas and the Guatemalan army from a period of about 1997 and about fifteen years before. That is, the reception is, in itself, a fascinating part of the process of their emplacement on this landscape. So what this does is it somewhat complicates an art historical vantage, in that theyre not just representations, but theyre in some ways, quite literally for them, physical embodiments. Researchers found that one of the beams from Lintel 3 was cut and carved between AD 658-696 (Kennett et al. Bloodletting was a common ritual among elites and it is one of the most frequent subjects in Maya art. And I personally thinkthis is my own perspectivethat for study purposes, small collections of pot shards and animals bones can still be responsibly stored and researched abroad. ", Posted 8 years ago. Its a little bit sad, in that Ive actually seen correspondence from Dana and Ginger, and the letterhead has the heading of Dan and Ginger Lamb, Exploration and Motion Pictures. But there would be only one movie called Quest for the Lost City, which was released in the 1950s and went into broad distribution. 1 : to expand something in detail would you care to elaborate on that statement. In 1950, American adventurers Dana and Ginger Lamb traveled to the jungles of northern Guatemala looking for Maya ruins and a story they could turn into a movie. The sculpture occupies almost the . Highly skilled artisans were able to simulate the look of wood, imitating the nuances of a wooden structure and the wood grain in excavating cave temples from monolithic rock. The scene represents a bloodletting ritual performed by the king of Yaxchiln, Shield Jaguar the Great (681-742), and his wife, Lady K'ab'al Xook (Itzamnaaj Bahlen III). Often wooden sculptures are only recognized through the traces of a thin shell of stucco that once covered them before the wood rotted away. The use of the lintel form as a decorative building element over portals, with no structural function, has been employed in the architectural traditions and styles of most cultures over the centuries. Theyre found in many, many palaces. HOUSTON: Yeah. how do we know that they really did worship shield jaguar, and how do we know the picture showed the queen? And I even use this analogy of trying to date a boat simply by when a champagne bottle was broken on its prow at the time of launching. There would be events taking place that would be eventually recorded on this monument. The human head worn by Shield Jaguar over his brow may be a shrunken battle trophy. It is carved, as are all the sculptures of Piedras Negras, of a buff-colored limestone which is soft and easily carved while wet. The beam depicts a female wearing an elaborately woven textile dress, a quetzal-feather headdress, and fine jade regalia. And the carver that the local lord employed to create this piece, a person whose name we know, Mayuy, was almost certainly from an antagonistic dynasty to the north, a place called Piedras Negras, which is quite renowned in the history of Maya culture and civilization. In the first millennium B.C., Maya artists began to sculpt in stone, stucco, wood, bone, shell, and fired clay. And by simply compiling or collecting as much information as he did, its led to great advances in Maya decipherment, especially in the last three to four decades. The second thing to remember about these, though, is that all of these carvings have a certain physical involvement with the viewer. To log in and use all the features of Khan Academy, please enable JavaScript in your browser. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Yaxchiln lintel 16 (commissioned by Bird Jaguar IV for Structure 21), after 752 C.E., Maya, Late Classic period, limestone, 76.2 x 75.7 cm, Mexico Trustees of the British Museum. The Yaxchiln lintels were originally painted, although only traces remain, including red on Lady Xooks clothing and the brilliant Maya blue color on the background of Lintel 24. Coe, Michael D., and Stephen D. Houston. In Lintel 24 and 25, Lady Xoc is seen performing blood sacrifice in one or another way. His undergraduate degree was in physics, of all things. What proximity do they share? But there wouldve been loggers; there wouldve been people out there tapping whats called the chicozapote or sapodilla tree, in order to extract the sap that would eventually make its way into chewing gum, at that time. If you're behind a web filter, please make sure that the domains *.kastatic.org and *.kasandbox.org are unblocked. The jester mask is considered analogous to the glyph for kingship, ajaw, and is named so for the vegetation often depicted coming from the crown of it. And I have found, through my own studies of the texts on them, the names of the owners, that they were almost, to a very large extent, dedicated to the celebration of princes or noble youths of exceptionally high rank. Sculptures made of jade range from deity figures (1979.206.1069) made for cached offerings to amulets (02.18.309) and beads to be worn by rulers and deposited in their funerary chambers to be taken with them to the afterlife. But to get back to Dana and Ginger, who were very much building on this tradition, in this book called A Quest for the Lost City, they were doing Enchanted Vagabonds 2.0. Shell earflare frontals (1995.489a, b) depict the severed head of the Maya Maize God, the personification of a newly harvested ear of corn. Its one of these very, very few acts of self-reference that occur in Maya writing. He ascended to power in AD 681 and died in AD 742. And Martin having been the cook on Jack Londons voyages. It was a significant Maya center during the Classic period (250-900 C.E.) 20002023 The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The civil war tended to suppress it; it tended to stop the more brazen acts of criminality. Structure 40 (above) sits in the South Acropolis, flanked by two other structures. Bird Jaguar ascended the throne ten years after his father died, suggesting that there was perhaps a conflict about who was to become Yaxchilns ruler. Direct link to toxicfoltgms's post what is a vent guys idk i, Posted 8 years ago. And in those smaller sites and in those isolated pockets would be lintels, of which quite a few are known from this area. One building was constructed a bit early; the later came about ten years after that. HOUSTON: They were a couple from California who first undertook, in the thirties, a canoe trip from their state all the way down to Panama. The Mayan city of Yaxchilan, on the Usumacinta River in present-day southern Mexico, specialized in the stone carving of ornamental lintel elements within structural stone lintels. Shield Jaguar II's commissions at Yaxchiln's central complex of buildings (called the Central Acropolis) include carved lintels (the beam at the top of a doorway), stairs faced with hieroglyphic writing, and stele (upright wood or stone slab monuments). And in fact, we know these limestones are literally millions of years old. all of these were propagandistic artworks, Recognition of Neurological Progression/Deter, The Language of Composition: Reading, Writing, Rhetoric, Lawrence Scanlon, Renee H. Shea, Robin Dissin Aufses, Eric Hinderaker, James A. Henretta, Rebecca Edwards, Robert O. Self, Byron Almen, Dorothy Payne, Stefan Kostka, Coastal ecosystems - coral reefs (Edexcel iGC. Why are the Mayans into sacrificing themselves or someone and they depict the gods as these harsh deities that will kill them if they don't constantly try to sacrifice? And the lintels are features of buildings that span doorways. Lintel 24 is the designation given by modern archaeologists to an ancient Maya limestone sculpture from Yaxchilan, in modern Chiapas, Mexico.The lintel dates to about 723-726 AD, placing it within the Maya Late Classic period. Other stone, however, is almost crystalline in hardness. Now, I would also say theres a forensic objective here, too, which is sorting out who took these lintels from their homewho orphaned them, so to speak. CUNO: Whats the size of the descendant population of Maya today? In the case of windows, the bottom span is instead referred to as a sill, but, unlike a lintel, does not serve to bear a load to ensure the integrity of the wall. The others are in very, very similar style. A beautiful diamond pattern decorates Lady Xooks huipil, for instance, in Lintel 24 (below). If you're seeing this message, it means we're having trouble loading external resources on our website. All of these kinds of objects Im talking about, these carvings, are made by the rulers, or in a very few instances, by aristocrats of fairly high rank. And thats where we have a good purchase on what the Maya felt and thought about these kind of sculptures. Wearing an exquisitely woven "huipil,"Lady K'abal Xook pulls a thorned rope through her tongue in the principal form of blood sacrifice perfomed by royal women. Such Maya rituals as bloodletting were only enacted on slaves. Or at least it was the claim of that dynasty. For photos, transcripts, and other resources, visit getty.edu/podcasts and if you have a question, or an idea for an upcoming episode, write to us at podcasts@getty.edu. But also, as I mentioned before, that the setting truly matterswhere the building was found, what that building might have presented architecturally, what might be the archaeological deposits nearby. On Lintel 25 (above), the effects of bloodletting are on display. She kneels in front of Shield Jaguar who holds a great torch described in the text as a "burning spear illuminating a ritual that was probably held at night or set in the dark recess of a private chamber. Find two or three examples in this story showing that Crane believes war personifies machines and dehumanizes people. Unfortunately, like many Maya ruins, the site has since been looted, and retracing the original locations of the displaced works is challenging. Standing on your head in public would be considered conspicuous. A spouted chocolate vessel (1999.484.3) made of indurated limestone would have taken an enormous amount of carving and polishing with abrasives in order to obtain the delicate reliefs and sheen of the surface. And thats when we start seeing very large cities, in fact, of a scale, of a magnitude that really is seldom documented even anywhere else in the world. It is odd that the men didn't have to "pull a thorned rope" through. Why does he feature so much in your book? And they are shown in the lintel as Atlantean beings who are literally supporting the sky itself, in which the king and his magnate appear. There would be the burning of incense. Its also a time in which theyre probably using a kind of lingua franca, the elites are speaking one language and its not at all clear that anyone else is communicating in that speech. And because of documents that Lamb left behind, we have a great deal of information about what Lamb did when he got to this place. Since the rest of the costume is depicted without much abstraction, it is suggested that Maya kings may have literally attached a shrunken head to their head band as a representation of power. Describe it for us and its importance in the history of Mayan sculpture, but also, perhaps, just in sheer beauty itself. As a. sapodilla, (Manilkara zapota), tropical evergreen tree (family Sapotaceae) and its distinctive fruit, native to southern Mexico, Central America, and parts of the Caribbean. Bricker, "Advances in Maya epigraphy,", J. Marcus, "The Iconography of Power Among the Classic Maya,", Posted 8 years ago. HOUSTON: It was a book that was coauthored by Dana with his wife Ginger, but it was partly ghosted by a bookseller named June Cleveland. [2] We are able to study the detail of Mayan weaving as depicted in these carvings, and see the pearls woven into the fabric. They obviously, from an abundance of evidence, injected a certain life and vitality into their carving. Structure 23 has since collapsed. Which of these artworks was not made as propaganda to supplement the power of the ruler it Just a made up name. Naming someone for a Jaguar would be a little like how in Catholic countries people were named using the Saints' Days Calendar. This site is using cookies under cookie policy . Lintels 24 and 25 are on permanent display in the British Museum's Mexican Gallery. How does that relate, how does that site relate to El Tunel or Bonampak? Chakalte' Guatemalan or Mexican. Almost certainly, they were found within a couple of yards of each other. And we have made, I think, a persuasive argument that the four lintels came from two separate buildings. It would be a nice marketing twist and a climax to his story. V.R. When used as verbs, elaborate means to . By pulling the rope studded with obsidian shards through her tongue, she causes blood to drip onto paper strips held in a woven basket to be burned as depicted on Lintel 25. Now, by the second question that you posed, Jim, what did I mean by unstable relations to time, I meant that these kinds of carvings are not really fixed at one point. In other words, was it that rich a visual area? It has been logged and given over to cattle farming or to intensive agriculture. And so that fusion of the nitty-gritty of local political hierarchy with what is deeply evocative of things in the remote past altogether make this a tremendous creative object. In this lintel, Lady Xook (in the lower right) kneels before a vision serpent, from whose mouth emerges a figure. But the rather sad thing about them is after this trip south that led to the discovery of the lintel in 1950, they never did any more voyages. The other thing to remember about Dana is that he was a very early Boy Scout and he was a committed scout master. Look for new episodes of Art and Ideas every other Wednesday, subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other podcast platforms. Near the Usumacinta River in Chiapas (photo: Daniel Mennerich, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). Direct link to jay.vanderveen.personal's post The males also let blood,, Posted 7 years ago. HOUSTON: Bonampak is a high-ranking city. Direct link to Jeff Kelman's post Wow that looks painful! And therere also many, many devastations. "Lady K'abal Xook pulls a thorned rope through her tongue in the principal form of blood sacrifice perfomed by royal women." In the case of windows, the bottom span is instead referred to as a sill, but, unlike a lintel, does not serve to bear a load to ensure the integrity of the wall. So what were doing in the Getty book is we are probing what were calling the afterlife of these carvings, as well, after theyre removed from this home. Now, the sculptures from all of these communities, these smaller places like El Tunel or Laxtunich, tend to be fairly emphatic in emphasizing that almost suffocating centralized control that emanates from Yaxchilan. CUNO: So help us understand the topography and vegetation of the area and how consistent it is across Guatemala. (P) 2006 Nonesuch Records, Inc., Produced Under License From Nonesuch Records, Inc. ISRC: USNO10600825 & USNO10600824. HOUSTON: Today, its very much close to a number of millions. There would be a carving, there would be an act of erection or emplacement. There were some yellows, as well, that are probably made out of some other kind of mineral. Before the construction of Structure 23, there was a hiatus in building at Yaxchiln for about 150 years. It is probably made of shell or jade plaques, as are her wrist cuffs. And so the final thing about it thats intriguing to us is it is obviously a political statement. One such site is Yaxchiln (pronounced Yash-chee-LAN) located in Chiapas, Mexico (close to the border of Guatemala) between the famous Maya cities of Copn and Palenque. Direct link to Eric Bush's post Seems like a close 'cousi, Posted 4 years ago. [5], Lintels may also be used to reduce scattered radiation in medical applications. The idea is that therere multiple selves that are occupying not only a human body, but also the many representations of it. The reds we see on this are likely ferrous, and sometimes theyll glint with little inclusions. Her necklace also appears to have a pectoral depiction of the sun god. These were located in what is known as Element 21 in Room 1 of Structure 23 at Yaxchilan. Its where most of their food came from. CUNO: Now, thats extremely interesting. The final sentence, which is not elevated like the other two, is an artists signature. But each one of them is intensively looted. But he made it his job to go out and record all of these carvings before they were looted, and to retrieve as much of their context as possible. Structure 23 is therefore important not only for advertising Shield Jaguar IIs power, but also for highlighting the important role of royal women in Maya culture. Non-structural decorative lintel at Buddhist Banteay Srei, in Cambodia, Non-structural lintel in Buddhist cave temple at Ellora Caves, India, Door lintel in Bozen-Bolzano from 1632 with Elias Tagger's coat of arms, South Tyrol, Italy, Non-structural marriage stone lintel at 'The Hill' farm, Dunlop, East Ayrshire, Scotland, One of many 16th century door lintels in Edinburgh's Old Town, Simonsbath House, Simonsbath, Exmoor Parish, Devon. The sculptor, Chakalte, signed this lintel and at least two other works during his career. Three entryways punctuate the exteriorwhich is embellished with stucco ornamentation. Lintel 24 is the designation given by modern archaeologists to an ancient Maya limestone sculpture from Yaxchilan, in modern Chiapas, Mexico. Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Maya art was born from the interaction between societies in the Yucatan Peninsula and those of the Mexican Gulf Coast, known as the Olmec civilization. Now, the pots were used anciently, for the consumption of food and drink. Why are there 3 doors on most of the temples here? And he was well known for guiding and promoting the Tarzan movies with Johnny Weissmuller and Buster Crabbe. The figures on top correspond to the local ruler, whose name we know, Cheleew Chan Kinich. HOUSTON: This part of Guatemala, its highly broken in landscape. It is strung from a jade bead necklace that is counterbalanced by a long strand of jade beads and what are probably carved shells going down his back. The loss of blood and the burning of incense produced hallucinations, which were desired in certain ritual contexts to access other realms. CUNO: Well, lets turn now to the particular lintel stone We mentioned the name of Dana Lamb. Elaborately carved gate lintel Contributor Names American Colony (Jerusalem). The blues are symbolically important because theyre linked to jade and to other sorts of precious substances, such as the Quetzal plumes that come from this adorable bird from highland Guatemala that has a tiny body, but an immensely long set of green plumes, which were also prized by the ancient Maya. The Maya civilization in the Americas was known for its sophisticated art and monumental architecture. The Maya rain god, known as Chac, also features prominently in later Maya art. Its like the Appalachia, you might say, the Maya region. And a good place for that wouldve been the Chiapas rainforest of Mexico, on the border between Guatemala and Mexico. And so these monuments are, to me anyway, notionally in a kind of slipstream of time. At times, its just claptrap. Yaxchiln is located on the south bank of the Usumacinta River, in Chiapas, Mexico. Theyre like Swiss cheese, Jim. And down below are two other figures. Three-dimensional wooden objects are scarcer and primarily known from dry tombs, cave contexts, or waterlogged anoxic conditions. Hieroglyphic stairways are also kinetically fascinating from an interpretive viewpoint because you, of course, walk up and down them, but what is often depicted on them, in terms of imagery, or recorded on them in terms of hieroglyphic inscriptions, would be a succession of rulers over time. Now, he, in this volume, decided to go look for primitive nativesthats very much in quotation marksin rawest jungle. Very different, especially in the case of carvings and painted pots. It makes them tremendously exciting to study. Its a heavily folded topography. (Late Classic period, 600-900 CE). Could these lintels have been used as lithographs? And they also tell us that he was able to craft within this object a masterful political statement that aligned politics with understandings of that time of cosmos, and even of creation, and also vice versa. The giant portrait that hangs over Tiananmen depicts one of the founders of ancient China. The capture of sacrificial victims was an essential aspect of Maya warfare, as they were necessary for many rituals. And also liked to indulge in himself the fun of roughing it, which mustve been every scouts dream. In Yaxchilan, structure 23 is seen as the place of Lady Xoc's. Why didnt he release more detailed information about where the lintels mightve come from? Welcome to Art and Ideas, a podcast in which I speak to artists, conservators, authors, and scholars about their work. Such Maya rituals as bloodletting were only enacted on slaves. The Hoysala Empire era was an important period in the development of art and architecture in the South Indian Kannadiga culture. These lintels, commissioned by the rulers of the city, provide a lengthy dynastic record in both text and image. And so many of them went to, of all places, Canada, which was, of course, part of the British Empire as well, until fairly recently. And this is a process that really, really intensified in the sixties and seventies, and even beyond. And I think it was always, Jim, quite remote, even in the times of the Classic period. We now know that it was a rope studded with obsidian blades used in the ritual, and may have the very physical shards depicted themselves. Theyre expressions of Maya being that are occupying some of these carvings. In fact, their canoe for these trips, The Vagabunda, is on display in the lobby of a mens club in Los Angeles called The Adventurers Club. Lady Xoc is shown here performing an important royal rite of blood letting. [citation needed] There are numerous documented references to him on artifacts at the end of Stage V at Yaxchilan. Lintels may be visible or recessed in the roof of the facility, and reduce dose rate in publicly accessible areas by reducing the maze cross section. And it remained, until recently, I think, one of the great mysteries of Maya imagery, as to where these objects, which had fascinated so many scholars, mightve come from. Belize has also had, traditionally, this system, especially, I would say, in the sixties, in which there really were not adequate storage facilities or places to display objects in Belize in that period. And this mustve been in the air of the time, because of the release, in 1947, of a lot of publicity about the Kon-Tiki expedition by Thor Heyerdahl. Lady Xook holds a bowl in her left hand while she looks up towards the rising serpent. HOUSTON: The pigments involve a blue made of indigo thats taken from the Anil plant. And then from the dates on the monument, we also know that theyre focusing on the equinox, on the break between the Maya dry season and the Maya wet season, a time in which things grow in very different paces. 250900), kings and queens of powerful city-states, such as Tikal, Calakmul, Palenque, and Copn, commissioned artworks to cover their royal court buildings and their regal bodies. Why did the looting take place? Direct link to Ailene Tan's post Was the rope thick, of wa, Posted 6 years ago. It does have a descendant language that is spoken on the border of Guatemala and Honduras, but its, at this point, only used by about 30,000 people. So it is above all, a very acutely hierarchical society, and language became, I think, part of the equipment they employed to accentuate those differences. 2574-2134 BC). HOUSTON: There are many, many different Mayan groups, thirty different languages or more, with varied histories. The difference between Elaborate and Explain. Examples of the ornamental use of lintels are in the hypostyle halls and slab stelas in ancient Egypt and the Indian rock-cut architecture of Buddhist temples in caves. HOUSTON: Were blessed, in the Maya evidence, to have many, many named carvers and also calligraphers. Theyre almost communicating the idea that the writing is bejeweled in some ways. Direct link to Jin Park's post It's mentioned that the i, Posted 4 years ago. Seems like a close 'cousin' to the ritual practice of the Plains Indians. The original interpretation of the studded rope was that there were thorns attached, but this new evidence in context has caused the interpretation to shift. It speaks about cataclysmic storms, almost a hurricane, artesian wells that are spurting like volcanoes, and so forth. it is possible, but considering the size of the monolith it would be quite difficult to print anything. The lintel measures forty-nine by twenty-four inches and is five and a half inches thick. And what I mean by that is that they were all in its orbit. CUNO: Now, when and under what circumstances was this particular carved lintel found? And I would be very surprised if the great painting at Bonampak wasnt made, ultimately, by painters coming from Yaxchilan. Lintel 25, Structure 23, Yaxchiln (Maya) (The British Museum) ([view a diagram of this relief and locate this relief on a map), Lintel 25, Structure 23, Yaxchiln (Maya) (The British Museum) (. And at the same time, concurrently, there was, I would also say, a mounting or growing interest, in places like New York City or in Europe, in what was then called primitive art, a term, of course, we eschew completely at this point. Direct link to green.rachael1001's post what is the size of struc, Posted 4 years ago. The king is wearing his hair back with quetzal feathers indicating that he will also let blood in this ceremony. Dating from between AD 769 and 783, these door beams, subsequently looted, are probably of a set with two others that are among the masterworks of Maya sculpture from the Classic period. It is possible that this is Bird Jaguar IV. emperors. HOUSTON: Well, we have a few examples of reliefs that have essentially transferred designs from pots. Hes probably looking for a more lucrative position here in this kingdom. The resources and tools necessarylimestone quarries, chisels, blades, and polishing stoneshave been found by archaeologists. What does it mean when someone says elaborate? All rights reserved. CUNO: Were there pots found at the same site as the lintel itself? And it is opening up all sorts of exciting possibilities of interpretation. The ancestors are people literally underfoot, and theyre recorded in sequence up and down the stairway. Because there really is zero doubt that this carving was taken from Guatemala when local laws prohibited such removal, whatever the international laws and regulations of that time. What event is portrayed in the elaborately carved lintel showing the maya ruler shield jaguar and his wife lady xoc ( 4.6.6)? And I would be also shocked if Mayuy, the carver that weve been examining, didnt know the painters, didnt know the carvers at Bonampak. And he needed a lost city as a selling point. Were all very busy with other projects, but its obvious that weve laid out what could potentially be a successful research program to return to this area, to excavate places like El Tunel, to recover even more of the meaning of these lintels, perhaps to find other fragments that would be left behind. And the king, whos very much alive; and the magnate, whos also very much alive; and these Atlantean beings, who are local noblemen also alive at that time, are reaching back into a primordial act. 71 Lintel 10 in Structure 3 records an och k'ahk' event, as does Lintel 56 of Structure 11, while Lintel 28 of Structure 24 records a fire-entering ceremony into Lady Xook's tomb. It was the center around which they tended to revolve. Accession rituals, for example, entailed the offering of dedicatory human sacrifices to mark the enthronement of a new ruling lord. Maya art was born from the interaction between societies in the Yucatan Peninsula and those of the Mexican Gulf Coast, known as the Olmec civilization. And it would also prove to be important for his eventual producer, who was none other than Sol Lesser, with RKO. onwards, and an essential part of rulership and of all public rituals. Sculpture for the ancient Maya spans all media, from the miniature to the monumental, as artists gave shape to materials extracted from the landscape. is a wonderful example of Maya Classic architecture, particularly of the Usumacinta and Peten region or style as some would call it (image below). What an extraordinary title. Yaxchilan itself is in not a very prepossessing area. Draw two lines under each verb or verb phrase. Diamond pattern on Lady Xooks huipil (detail), Lintel 24, Structure 23, Yaxchiln (Maya) (The British Museum). City, provide a lengthy dynastic record in both text and image and his wife Lady Xoc shown... 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