This plaque, perhaps meant to be held in the hand for close viewing, is delicately incised with a ruler who leans toward a serpent-headed conch shell at the lower left. The lord, who smokes a cigar, is simply dressed in a loincloth; a band of body paint or tattoos appears on his chest.

The Blood of Kings: A New Interpretation of Maya Art. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (organizer) (May 17-August 24, 1986); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 8-December 14, 1986).

The Blood of Kings: A New Interpretation of Maya Art

Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991).

Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum

The World of the Maya. Roemer und Pelizaeus Museum, Hildesheim, Hildesheim, Germany (organizer) (June 14-December 6, 1992); Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Köln, Germany (February 18-May 23, 1994).

The World of the Maya

Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya. National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (April 4-July 25, 2004); Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA (September 4, 2004-January 2, 2005).

Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya

The Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea. Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA (organizer) (March 27-July 18, 2010); Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (August 29, 2010-January 2, 2011); Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (February 13-May 8, 2011).

The Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea

Maya: Secrets of Their Ancient World. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto M5S 2C6, Canada (organizer) (November 19, 2011-April 9, 2012); Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau, Canada (May 17-October 28, 2012).

Maya: Secrets of Their Ancient World

Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; September 10- October 16, 1966. " Golden Anniversary Acquisitions." Cat. no. 49. repr. p. 278.

Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; 1986. Forth Worth, TX: Kimbell Art Museum; (1986). "The Blood of Kings: A New Interpretation of Maya Art."

Hildesheim, Germany: Roemer und Pelizaeus Museum; June 14- December 6, 1992. Vienna, Ausria: Kunstlerhaus; January 31- June 27, 1993. Cologne, Germany: Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum; February 18- May 15, 1994. "The World of the Maya." cat. no. 99, repr.p. 421.

Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art; April 4- July 25, 2004. San Francisco, CA: California Palace of the Legion of Honor; September 4, 2004- January 2, 2005. "Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya." exh. cat. no. 69, p. 137.

Boston, MA: Peabody Essex Museum; March 27- July 18, 2010. Fort Worth, TX: The Kimbell Art Museum; August 29, 2010- January 2, 2011. St. Louis, MO: The Saint Louis Art Museum; February 13- May 8, 2011. "The Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea." cat. no. 40, plate 35, p. 114-115 and 301.

A rectangular piece of a conch shell is carved with a cross-legged person, leaning forward and reaching toward a dragon squeezed into the lower left corner. The person's head extends seamlessly into an animal head that faces up with a long snout and large, loopy ears. Faintly incised lines create geometric patterns on the person's chest and a cigar extending from their mouth, puffs of smoke curling out from it.

Emery May Holden Norweb [1895-1984] and Raymond Henry Norweb [1894-1983], Cleveland OH, 1965, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art

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