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品名（中）	猴子船
品名（英）	Monkey Vessel
入馆年号	1979年，1979.206.1156
策展部门	迈克尔·洛克菲勒之翼（The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing）
创作者
创作年份	公元 900 - 公元 1300
创作地区	墨西哥（Mexico）
分类	石头容器（Stone-Containers）
尺寸	高 7 1/2 x 宽 5 x 深 5 1/2 英寸 (19.1 x 12.7 x 14 厘米)
介绍（中）	古代墨西哥人使用多种石头来制造仪式和奢侈物品。缟玛瑙大理石，雕刻着这种容器，出现在墨西哥的许多地方，在那里它被称为tecali。在公元一千年上半叶特奥蒂瓦坎大城的花期，特卡利主要用于雕刻面具。几个世纪后，也许是雕刻技巧提高的结果，宝石艺术家能够用它制作器皿，一些普通的和一些像这里的雕像。这种碗的一个常见主题是一只把尾巴举过头顶的猴子。血管保持球状，四肢、头部和尾巴突然从中突出。容器的内部用管状钻头（可能是竹子）费力地挖空，然后抛光光滑。眼睛和牙齿镶嵌着贝壳和黑曜石。图像的功能或意义尚不清楚，尽管猴子在玛雅人和阿兹特克人的创世神话中占有一席之地，并被视为表演和视觉艺术的鼻祖，也许是因为它们的娱乐行为。
介绍（英）	The ancient Mexicans used many kinds of stone for the manufacture of ritual and sumptuary objects. Onyx marble, of which this vessel is carved, occurs in many parts of Mexico, where it is known as tecali. During the florescence of the great city of Teotihuacan in the first half of the first millennium A.D., tecali was used primarily to carve masks. Centuries later, perhaps a result of improved carving skills, lapidary artists were able to produce vessels from it, some plain and some effigy figures as here. A frequent subject of such bowls is a monkey holding its tail above its head. The vessel retains its globular form, the limbs, head, and tail projecting from it abruptly. The interior of the container was laboriously hollowed out with tubular drills, probably of bamboo, and then polished smooth. The eyes and teeth are inlaid with shell and obsidian. The function or meaning of the image is not known, although monkeys feature in creation myths of the Maya and Aztecs and were perceived as the originators of the performing and visual arts, perhaps because of their entertaining behavior.