Title: Sellos prehispánicos
Description: Designs and iconographic motifs in seals, stamps or "estampaderas", Pre-Hispanic objects used to engrave receptacles or textiles, and to mark the skin, as seen in the impressive figures of El Perú-Waka, Petén, recently discovered. The collection is a wide selection that covers a great part of the cultural holdings of the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology of Guatemala, The Ruta Maya Foundation, and the Miraflores Museum, as well as a few private collections.
Subjects: Indian seals (Numismatics), History, Stamp seals, Cylinder seals, Seals (Numismatics), Maya pottery, Maya sculpture, Antiquities, Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología (Guatemala)
Places: Guatemala
Time periods: To 1500