Date/Time
Date(s) - 11 Feb 2012
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Location
Penn Museum 345, University of Pennsylvania
Category(ies) No Categories
“Temple B and Other Stories” by Gillett Griffin and John Burkhalter, Princeton University Art Museum.
Pre-Columbian Society
Gillett G. Griffin, curator emeritus of Pre-Columbian and Native American Art at the Princeton University Art Museum, will share his exciting stories of adventures in Mexico and Central America in pictures and words. In 1966, he went to Mexico for the first time to paint, explore and write. An intrepid explorer, he was co-discoverer of rare Olmec cave paintings deep in Juxtlahuaca Cave in central Guerrero. During his tenure as Curator of Pre-Columbian Art, he served as an advisor for a PBS documentary Mystery of the Maya, which featured the chance re-discovery of Temple B at Rio Bec He also mapped the highland Olmec site of Chalcatzingo, Morelos. Accompanying Mr. Griffin will be musician John Burkhalter performing on original Pre-Columbian wind instruments including the only known jade Maya flute.