Twenty nineth in a series of caches highlighting the art of Norfolk's Chrysler Museum, One Memorial Place, Norfolk, VA 23510. The Chrysler Museum is open Tues.- Sat. 10 am - 5 pm, Sunday from Noon - 5 pm. Admission is Free. Website: www.chrysler.org. This terra cotta sculpture may be seen in Gallery 105 (Pre-Columbian Art) at the museum.<br /><br>
Measuring 37 ¾ x 14 ½ x 8 inches, this terracotta figure of a standing warrior was produced in Veracruz, Mexico ca. 600–900. Depicted with wide, menacing eyes, and with mouth open and teeth barred, the figure originally held a weapon in its upraised left arm. The small circular opening in its trunk is the object’s firing hole, which cleverly doubles as the figure’s navel. The net of tiny scales covering its trunk, arms, and legs is armor. In life, such battle armor would have been made from an enemy’s flayed skin.<br><br>
Pre-Columbian art refers to the visual arts of indigenous peoples of the Caribbean, North, Central, and South Americas until the late 15th and early 16th centuries, and the time period marked by Christopher Columbus' arrival in the Americas. Pre-Columbian art thrived throughout the Americas from at least 13,000 BCE to the European conquests, and sometimes continued for a time afterwards. Many Pre-Columbian cultures did not have writing systems, so visual art expressed cosmologies, world views, religion, and philosophy of these cultures, as well as serving as mnemonic devices. These cultures produced a wide variety of visual arts, including painting on textiles, hides, rock and cave surfaces, bodies especially faces, ceramics, architectural features including interior murals, wood panels, and other available surfaces.<br><br>
<br><br> The cache is a camo'd pill bottle on the east side of the trail.
<br><br> Other caches in this series include:<br />
Chrysler Treasures #1 - The Norfolk Mace (GC7C965) Located in Gallery 208<br />
Chrysler Treasures #2 - Man (GC7EAZX) Located in Gallery 221<br />
Chrysler Treasures # 3 - Angel Appearing to Shepherds (GC7EC96) Located in Gallery 211<br />
Chrysler Treasures # 4 - The Neophyte (GC7ECR7) Located in Gallery 214<br />
Chrysler Treasures # 5 - The Wounded Indian (GC7EMPZ) Located in Gallery 212<br />
Chrysler Treasures # 6 - Picasso (GC3B4KQ) Located in Gallery 219<br />
Chrysler Treasures # 9 - Veronese (GC7EYA3) Located in Gallery 204<br />
Chrysler Treasures #10 - The Last Judgement (GC7EYE5) Located in Gallery 202<br />
Chrysler Treasures #11 - The Vegetable Vendor (GC7EZM5) Located in Gallery 207<br />
Chrysler Treasures #12 - James Baldwin (GC7F3HN) Located in Gallery 222<br />
Chrysler Treasures #13 - Ganymede and the Eagle (GC7F4BK) Located in Gallery 208<br />
Chrysler Treasures #14 - Renoir (GC7F3PJ) Located in Gallery 217<br />
Chrysler Treasures #15 - Samurai Armor (GC7F6M8) Located in Gallery 106<br />
Chrysler Treasures #16 - Tiffany Glass (GC7F5WY) Located in Gallery 116<br />
Chrysler Treasures #18 - Naga Buddha (redux) (GC8A8PE) Located in Gallery 107<br />
Chrysler Treasures #19 - Sarcophagus (redux) (GC8A8X8) Located in Gallery 109<br />
Chrysler Treasures # 21 - Libenksy and Brychtova (GC7QFM0) Located in Gallery 223<br />
Chrysler Treasures # 22 - Abstract Expressionism (GC7QG86) Located in Gallery 223<br />
Chrysler Treasures # 23 - Hamlet Robot (GC7QG8E) Located in Gallery 223<br />
Chrysler Treasures # 24 - Here Kitty, kitty (GC89AWG)<br />
Chrysler Treasures # 25 - Bernini's Bust of Christ (GC8RZB5) in Gallery 205 <br />
Chrysler Treasures # 26 - MacPherson and MacDonald (GC8ZXF5) in Gallery 218 <br />
Chrysler Treasures # 27 - Karen Lamonte (GC8ZY3Q) in Gallery 108 <br />
Chrysler Treasures # 28 - Amor Forgiven (GC90M9V) in Galley 216 <br>
Chrysler Treasures # 29 - Standing Warrior (GC90VFT) in Gallery 105<br>
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