Incense burner with a deity with aquatic elements (detail), 700–750, Palenque, Mexico. Ceramic, 46 3/4 x 22 1/4 x 7 7/8 in. (118.5 x 56.5 x 20 cm). Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes—Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Museo de Sitio de la Zona Arqueológia de Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico, 10-604759. Courtesy Peabody Essex Museum, photograph © 2009 Jorge Pérez de Lara.
The exhibition is organized by the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, and is made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Because democracy
demands wisdom. Additional support is provided by ECHO (Education through Cultural and Historical Organizations), a program of the U.S. Department of Education,
Office of Innovation and Improvement. The exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
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