Mayan Beauty Featured in Exhibition at Merida's Palacio Canton The Yucatan Times
go to original November 6, 2015

Many beautiful figures of humans, animals, deities and supernatural beings are featured in the exhibition, “Mayas: El lenguaje de la belleza” (“Mayas: The language of beauty”) currently at the Palacio Cantón Regional Museum of Anthropology in Mérida.

The exhibit, on display through February 2016, was assembled by Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History and already has visited China, where it reportedly drew 135,000 visitors to the National Museum.

The exhibit includes 278 pieces in ceramic, stone, jadeite and shell from Campeche, Chiapas, Tabasco, Quintana Roo and Yucatán. The pieces, ranging from large stone sculptures to tiny ceramic figurines, date from 100 B.C. to 1200 A.D.

Although the striking pieces generally speak for themselves, the accompanying explanatory signage sheds light on how the concept of beauty permeated various aspects of Maya life. Most of the signage is in both Spanish and English.

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Photo: Robert Adams

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