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in height weighing in at ten to forty tons and more. Imagine forty (40) tons
of basalt, solid blocks; some sixteen and eighteen feet in circumference,
mined from stone quarries eighty (80) miles away and transported to the
holy center of La Venta and other sites - This head from the post-Classic
period stares at us across five centuries with a lifelike power and
directness. This is clearly the type of African who came to the New World
in 1310 A.D. in the expeditionary fleet of Abubakari II of the Mali Empire.
types found at Tanis, the harbor for seagoing ships in Egypt, can
parallel this head in scale or conception in the ancient world.
In 1862 a colossal granite head of an African was found in the
Canton of Tuxtla, near the place where the most ancient of Per-
columbian statuettes were discovered, the historian Orozco y Berra
declared in his history of the conquest of Mexico that there was
bound to be an important and intimate relationship between
Mexicans and Africans in the Per-columbian past.
The Society for American Archaeology, which held a symposium
at Santa Fe, New Mexico, in May 1968 to discuss the problems of
Per-columbian contact between the continents and concluded:
“Surely there cannot now be any question but that there were
visitors to the New World from ancient Africa in historic or even
prehistoric time before 1492.
sculptures, through the medieval Mexico of the Mayas, when they appear not only in terra-cotta portraits but on golden pectorals and on pipes,
down to the late post-classic period, time of the conquest, when they begin to disappear as they disappeared all over the world until today,
reemerging once more as significant figures.
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Dancers at Native American ceremonies in the Pacific North
Coast region wore carved wooden masks. Some of these masks,
like this Haida example from the mid-19th century, resembled
human faces whereas others took the form of supernatural
creatures. This mask is painted with lines of varying width that
emphasize different parts of the face.
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