LINKS TO MAYA ART BOOKS

• Awards for FLAAR Internet sites
• Belize, a wonderful country to visit; friendly people, great Maya ruins; recommended hotels
• Ballgame of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, lecture abstract
  • Ballgame program at annual FLAAR Maya symposium
  • Animated 3-D QTVR object movie (GIF) of Maya ballplayer figurine
• Book list, Art & Archaeology Book Service (office in transit, will reopen by next year)
• Camera equipment recommended for use in museums or on expedition
• Copan, report on sculpture prepared for IHAH; recommended hotels, restaurant, in Copan
  • Menu for images of Copan sculpture
  • Jaguar God of the Underworld (on jaguar stairway)
  • Photogenic Jaguar God of the Underworld (on Stela I on one side of the Main Plaza)
  • Copan stela in the Main Plaza (small version)
  • Other Copan sculpture
  • Copan skull (dramatized by James Robinson, GIF animation)
• Credits and copyright notice
• Dedolights, essential lights for photographing artifacts
• Digital imaging gateway
• Epigraphy (see "Mayan hieroglyphs, PSS")
• FLAAR (grants received and program with Japan's National Museum of Ethnology)
  • Photo Archive, II
  • FLAAR director, Dr Nicholas M. Hellmuth; co-director, Andrea David
• Glossary of Maya iconography being finished by FLAAR
• Hotels at Maya ruins (see "travel to Maya lands, hotels")
• Lecture abstracts (lectures available in English, German, or Spanish from FLAAR)
  • Ballgame of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica
  • How Digital Imaging can Improve Scholarly Research and Reports
  • Tomb of the Jade Jaguar, discovery and excavation of the treasures of Tikal
• Library development
• Links (an earlier list of links for www.maya-art-books.org)
• Los Horcones, Teotihuacanoid stela in Tonola, Chiapas
• Maya archaeology, complete index of all subjects on www.maya-archaeology.org
• Maya symposium (weekend conference and workshop, especially on the PSS and Maya vase style and iconography)
  • Past speakers (distinguished archaeologists)
• Maya ceramic art; pedestal (ring base) bowl from Campeche-Peten border area
  • Lid of basal flange bowl, Museo Popol Vuh
  • Unusual Highland Guatemalan ceramic effigy
  • For many other Maya vases and artifacts see listings under "Museo Popol Vuh"
• Maya textiles, book on textiles by Professor Yoshiho Yasugi
• Maya vase rollouts
  • Chama, low Chama bowl with feline fur pattern and hieroglyph
  • Several Maya vase rollouts with the FLAAR 70 mm film system made in Belgium
  • Holmul Dancer vase, rollout of one panel, Museo Popol Vuh
  • History of the development of rollout cameras (first one was made in the 19th century, at the British Museum, to photograph Greek vases!)
  • Rollouts illustrating symposium schedule
  • Tepeu 1, dancing wayob (naguals, alter ego animal spirit companions)
  • Tepeu 1 vase with nice PSS, segment showing executioner with small enema jug in front.
  • More schedule, with rollout photographs of polychrome Maya vases
• Mayan hieroglyphs and epigraphy (introduction to Mayan glyphs and epigraphy)
  • PSS, (including two vases never before published, including miniature "sombrero lidded bowl")
  • Hieroglyph on a low Chama bowl (at bottom of the page)
  • Another bowl with flawlessly preserved PSS, not previously published
  • Flawlessly preserved PSS, original, no repainting, reversed (backwards PSS)
• Maya art (general discussion)
• Museo Popol Vuh, library (FLAAR library on loan to the museum)
  • Bat and animal effigy, illustrating symposium schedule, public lectures
  • Late Protoclassic tetrapod with lid
  • Preclassic figurine with punctate eyes
• Panorama photographs of Tikal
• Photography in art history, architectural history, and archaeology
  • Color correction gels are useful for studio photography, Rosco Gels
• Printing (rather essential for books, but here are interest is more desktop publishing)
  • Fabulous paper for using with laser printers, Futura Laser
  • Desktop binding, especially useful in museums and for any archaeology project
• QTVR object movies; gateway to image menu; Maya ballplayer
• Rollout photographs (see Maya vase rollouts)
• Seitz Super Roundshot, 70 mm panorama camera at work at Tikal
• Software reviews (software which is useful for art history, archaeology, etc.)
  • Superbase (Justin Kerr started with this; art historians use it; check it out)
• Support Maya archaeological research, it's tax deductible
• Symposium, 1998 FLAAR + BCC Maya archaeology conference and exhibits
  • Pictures of participants enjoying the '98 Maya symposium in Florida
  • Speakers (distinguished archaeologists)
  • Schedule, with lots of nice rollout photographs of polychrome Maya vases
• Tiquisate female incensario and double cylindrical tripod, Museo Popol Vuh with FLAAR Library
• Teotihuacanoid stela (sharing features with Xochicalco), Los Horcones, Chiapas
• Tikal Temples II and IV, spectular photograph from a helicopter; Temple I and North Acropolis
  • Tikal Temple I photos in GIF format (instead of JPEG format)
• Travel to Maya lands, photograph trips to photograph birds, exotic flowers, Maya ruins
• Travel to Maya lands, hotels
  • Belize, list of hotels that are good in this popular Caribbean-Central American travel destination
  • SCUBA diving paradise, hotel we prefer in the Bay Islands (Honduras)
  • The hotel we prefer in Guatemala City is the Cortijo Reforma
  • Hotel in Chichicastenango we prefer is the Santo Tomas (more than Mayan Inn)
  • Recommended hotel in Tikal (Posada de la Selva, Jungle Lodge)
  • Recommended hotels in Santa Elena/Flores area, Peten, Guatemala
  • Recommended hotel at Chichen Itza (Piramide Inn Resort, Piste)
  • Recommended hotel in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico (Hotel Hyatt Regency)
  • Recommended hotels in Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico.
• Volunteer possibilities
• Webmaster notes, by James Robinson, who was the original web designer for FLAAR
  • Robinson's suggestions to get around the Web sites the easiest; help page

Equipment, useful for offices, museums, academic departments, and especially for art historians, architects, archaeologists and anthropologists.

• 35mm color slides, how to handle an archive full of slides (with 40,000 slides we have experience)
  • Gepe slide mounts for 6 x 6 cm (medium format transparencies, 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inch)
• Desktop publishing, the new generation of color copiers as alternative to color laser printers
  • Xerox DocuColor 40
  • Spiral binding, wire binding, plastic binding (desktop binding)
• Desktop publishing, choosing paper is as important as selecting which printer to use
  • Futura Laser, the nicest surface among premium laser printer papers
• Dicomed digital scanning cameras for 4x5 large format, Dicomed Field Pro
• Encad, wide format printer (color ink jet); Encad media and inks
• Flatbed scanners (see also www.cameras-scanners-flaar.org and www.flatbed-scanner-review.org)
• Logan slide storage boxes, how to safely store all your 35mm color slides
• Rexam Graphics media for wide format printers
• Sponsors, corporate benefactors, companies who have provided products
• Wide format printing (large format ink jet printers)
  • Media (photo paper, banner paper, etc) from Rexam Graphics