Mesoamerican Artifacts Rarely Seen

Rarely Seen Mesoamerican Artifacts Revealed

Few people know that the Smithsonian Institution curates one of the largest single collections of whole Mesoamerican ceramic artifacts in the world — more than 12,000, to be specific. But most of these objects are tucked away unseen by most people within the storage “vaults” that house all of the other massive museum collections, the largest in the world.  [...] The objects represent a rich variety of Central American cultures spanning the period from 1000 B.C. to the present.
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Surely these objects should be released on the market to be preserved, cared for and displayed by collectors, instead of mouldering away in some museum basement
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