Reassembling pieces of the past
Morning Star the god of war New exhibit at DMA gathers pieces looted from Spirit Lodge site and scattered worldwide DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writertaffet@dallasvoice.com Sometimes you know about art you’ve never seen.
If you love Mayan, Incan and Aztec culture and haven’t visited the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City or the ruins at Chichen Itza, heading to either has to be on your bucket list.
Visiting either is an expected joy. But discovering something you didn’t know existed is quite a different pleasure. The Mississippian cultures — which include the Caddo, Wichita and other tribes — had societies as developed and sophisticated as those in Mesoamerica.
Human head effigy vessel And among the local settlements were ones as close to North Texas as Oklahoma. On exhibit at the Dallas Museum of Art are almost 200 pieces of work from Spiro in eastern Oklahoma.
