Inside the MFAH Posts tagged #pre-columbian

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Lions, Tigers, and . . . Llamas? Exploring the Ancient American Cosmos December 5, 2014
The idea for the exhibition Fangs, Feathers, and Fins: Sacred Creatures in Ancient American Art began when I subscribed to International Wildlife as a teenager. Instead of boy-band posters on my bedroom wall, I had pages torn from this magazine. That’s what drew me to Pre-Columbian studies, to examine the cultures that existed in the Americas before the arrival of Christopher Columbus. For …