While studying for this chapter I had looked up information for the looted murals. I was interested in how the murals look like so I landed on the de Young Museum website. Here are some of the murals that were part of the looting from the site of Teotihuacan. These murals were purchased by Harald Wagner on 4 different occasions both in Mexico and in the United States. Harald Wagner intended to sell these to make a profit at first but then because of marketbility issues he decided to donate them to the De Young Museum in San Francisco as part of his will in 1974.
Bird with spear, sound scroll, and shield. It is believed that the sound scroll may suggest that the bird is singing.
Coyotes with a deer in the middle
More information on Harald Wager, more murals, the looting and Teotihuacan in general can be found here:
http://www.famsf.org/teotihuacan/index.html
4 comments:
These are awesome! Thanks for posting them. That's lateral thinking
Very interesting. Thank you for sharing this info. I will go there to see them.
That's interesting that your curiosity about the murals led to this discovery that the murals were at the De Young Museum! & how lucky for us that you found that out so we can go see them, since the De Young is closeby. Thanks!
Thank you I was planning a trip to the de young but now have more of a reason to go.
Thanks again,
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