via the National Museum of Women in the Arts website: Divine and
Human: Women in Ancient Mexico and Peru examines the important
and varied roles played by women in a “Who’s Who” of the major
civilizations of ancient Mesoamerica and in the Andean region,
including the Aztec, Mayan, Zapotec, Moche, Mixtec, and Incan
cultures. The more than 400 objects comprising this exhibition,
including sculptures, textiles, pottery, jewelry, and grave
goods, attest to the powerful, but often overlooked roles women
played in both the daily and spiritual life of their respective
societies. Women were not only daughters, wives, mothers and
grandmothers, but were also healers, midwives, scribes, artists,
poets, priestesses, warriors, and governors; some were even
considered goddesses. NMWA is located at 1250 New York Avenue,
N.W., Washington, DC 20005 tel: 202-783-5000, 1-800-222-7270
Monday-Saturday: 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Sunday: noon - 5:00 p.m.