Mexico and Central America
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of 173 objects associated with Central America, which date broadly from 50 to 2001. This collection comprises 161 objects from Mexico, four from Panama, seven from Honduras and one from Nicaragua. It includes ceramics, stone tools, stone carvings, body ornaments, costume, textiles, paintings, photographs, souvenirs, crafts, contemporary sculpture and masks. The collection is dominated by two assemblages: one purchased in 1896 from Donald Stewart, which contains a pair of tooled leather chaps attributed to the revolutionary priest and leader Miguel Hidalgo; the other a collection of 92 obsidian tools removed in the late 19th century from the Pyramid of the Sun at the ancient Mesoamerican city of Teotihuacan in San Juan Province, Mexico. Teotihuacan material also accounts for 23 small terracotta masks of the type used in domestic rituals, which represent warriors, deities and women. The collection also contains two contemporary multi-media sculptures by the Linares family of Mexico, commissioned in the 1990s for the Gallery of Modern Art and St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art. Central America is a narrow stretch of land which unites North and South America. It was formerly part of the Mesoamerican civilisation, and today includes Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama.
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