I wonder if they were taken from warriors from the other team!

I'm sure wingers would love dragging around "mementos" along the line of items they bagged from the Capitol for the rest of their lives, if they only could, like the lectern one man proudly brandished.

Proof you've really "owned" someone.

Fairly ugly thought!

Do you happen to know if the Mayan people, and others I suppose, originally had that long and flat brow to nose profile? If not I wonder how that profile became so important. Obviously I did not even try to look it up yet or ever think about that until now but you see it all the time and I finally wondered about that....lol so slow sometimes.

I've spent a lot of time looking at the faces over years in illustrations, wondering about them. Truly distinctive.

I was hanging around the areas. I saw it everywhere, not on the regular people but on a whole lot of the art. I am hardly well traveled but I saw it from Mexico, through Central America but once you got East of that area, Honduras, Guatemala, Belize and headed to the Caribbean Islands I do not remember noticing it all that much except for the "old art" either really old or copied art for sale.

The pictures of the young women you posted would make me think it is indeed a common trait perhaps? Likely became desired like the flattened foreheads of some tribes or the crossed eyes (was that Mayan?).

I LOVE the art you have posted. So handsome and just amazing works of art.

My fondest hope has always been that when I die I can see and know about all of these cultures and what it all meant to them, just to understand. I love to read about them but who really knows what all they were all about. I want to soar through the times and see what was up, truly from their perspective.