RWC#4CA-me02(02Dec61)

PENUTIAN-MAYA ARCHETYPES AND CHARACTERISTICS

ANTHR0P0MRHISM.  Anthropomorphic artifacts and artifacts with anthropomorphic images carved or painted on them are the major connecting factors among the Western American tribes.  Heads of different people or busts are the subjects of anthropomorphic art.  The above example is a metallic artifact with two heads painted on its surface.  The significance of these two heads that are facing one another is they appear on most of the artifacts in this collection.  Another interesting fact about the different heads is they appear to represent different individuals.  The Maya used head variants to represent numbers and dates.  The artifacts of the Penutian-Maya appear to use head variants in the same manner.

Homomorphic Gorillas
RWC#4CA-zo01(07Oct03G92)      ORC#5OR-sc02(07Oct03G92)

HOMOMORPHISM.  Homomorphism is a mathematical term that means there exists a one to one mapping between two objects.   To a mathematician a coffee cup and a donut are homomorphic objects.  For each point on the coffee cup there is a one to one mapping to each point on the donut.   Isomorphism is an identical mapping of an object to itself.  For an anthropologist these two concepts are combined, since finding two identical objects rarely happens.   Some artifacts, such as the gorilla busts pictured above, are very similar to one another and they are homomorphic objects. For anthropology, homomorphism is defined by a one to one mapping between the art of similar artifacts.  Identical art themes are another connecting factor among the Western American tribes.

turtle & peccary of Orion
ORC#4OR-as01

POLYMORPHISM.  Polymorphic artifacts, as their name suggests are artifacts that contain multiple images, a rainbow hologram in stone.  The artifact ORC#4OR-As01 is one of the best examples of this type, which has five zoomorphic forms, two pumas, a turtle, a peccary, and a rams head.  The TURTLE and the PECCARY (a pig like animal native to the Southwest and Central America) are two zoomorphic representations for the Maya constellations in the star group we call Orion. The constellations and the associated art of the turtle and the peccary are PENUTIAN-MAYA ARCHETYPES.