The way many of us learn about events that happened before our era is by learning their past history. History is taught and learned by major events that have happened and have been recorded in some sort of way in the past, which carries on through time and, are remembered by being in textbooks and/or museums. It is amazing when history can be captured by an object and be carried through eras to be seen by others to appreciate its significance. I had the pleasure of visiting the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston on November 17th, 2015. They had numerous galleries of amazing arts of work, there was one gallery that caught my attention and that was Ancient Central America also known as Mesoamerica. In this gallery I came across a beautiful sculpture…show more content… The human cacao-effigy incense burner is divided in two parts, the top of the burners is a sculpture of the effigy and the bottom is a simple vase like pot, the incense burner was made in Tiquisate-Teotihuacan style. The entire sculpture is approximately seventeen inches tall and about nine and three-fourths inches wide. The top of the effigy has a lot of detail; it looks like the human effigy is sitting Indian style while she holds a cacao pod in her hands, which she rests on her lap. The sculpture wears a typical style feathered mirror on her chest also, what looks like a cacao-bean neckless around her neck. In each of her wrist she has beaded bracelets, I can’t really distinguish if they are also cacao beans. On her head it looks like she has an embellished typical Teotihuacan style flowers that goes all around, also she has big cylindrical earspools on each ear. The figure resembles that of the Mayan people but she does have a distinct feature which is her nose. The human cacao-effigy incense burner has been broken before and it has been restored by clay, the nose has also been reattached. The sculpture was a gift to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston by Landon T. Clay. This cacao-effigy incense burner was also a symbol of their most prestigious gift, the cacao
