Mayan Culture Pottery Shart
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August 4, 2011 at 2:36 pm
How is this an iguana?
August 4, 2011 at 2:37 pm
Maybe they meant “giant iguana shit”.
August 4, 2011 at 3:34 pm
How is it mayan ?
August 4, 2011 at 4:46 pm
cause it isn’t theirsan
August 4, 2011 at 5:47 pm
And it’s too shitty to be urine.
August 4, 2011 at 7:26 pm
How is this EIGHTY DOLLARS?
August 5, 2011 at 7:06 pm
As an archaeologist, I just want to point out that removal of archaeological relics from their rightful country is in violation of several international laws.
Also, by removing this artifact from it’s original context renders it useless as an interpretive tool, any data that could have been collected is gone.
Good job you cunt.
August 4, 2011 at 2:37 pm
“during the turn of the century”
so like…2000? 2001?
August 4, 2011 at 2:46 pm
Nope. 2010.
And how is it relevant the collector belongs to the Flathead Tribe? That’s like saying “authentic Greek relics collected by a Scotsman”.
August 4, 2011 at 4:00 pm
Or bought at Sadigh Gallery.
August 4, 2011 at 5:22 pm
I think they mean it was made by a fathead (probably the seller) and it got auto-corrected.
August 4, 2011 at 2:38 pm
Don’t step in the Iguana!
August 4, 2011 at 2:40 pm
Mayans…Montana Flathead Indian…turn of the century…head cannot wrap around such fuckery…
August 4, 2011 at 2:41 pm
I have so many questions. Why is it important that a Montana Indian picked up this shard? What was the Montanan (Montanian? Montanonian? Montandian?) doing around Mayan shards? Was it picked up 10 years ago or 110 years ago? Why does any of this matter? Why does it look like a bald, pregnant Muppet laying on its belly, covering its ears? Or is it a Keith Haring figure? Why don’t I see any iguana?
August 4, 2011 at 2:47 pm
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August 4, 2011 at 3:04 pm
It’s illegal to take items off of a preserve or reservations.
August 4, 2011 at 3:30 pm
A good law that is.
August 4, 2011 at 10:59 pm
Do Mexico and Guatemala have similar laws? I would hope so.
At any rate, I doubt this is an actual Mayan piece. This is a ancient Mayan pot:
That is a fourth grade art project.
August 4, 2011 at 11:45 pm
They most certainly do. It is powerfully illegal to “collect” or possess any indigenous Mexican artifact collected after 1973, when the law went into effect. This accounts for the large quantity of Mayan, Aztec, etc. artifacts with letters of authenticity fraudulently stating they were collected in 1973, but that’s another subject. If this is Mayan, and from the look of it it well could be, this seller is committing an international crime.
August 4, 2011 at 2:42 pm
shard = shart
August 4, 2011 at 2:42 pm
Isn’t it illegal to sell off pre-Columbian artifacts?
August 4, 2011 at 7:49 pm
It depends there are a lot of laws depending on where it was found (laws very a lot), but definitely sketchy. Not that there’s any real concern this is mayan or 900 b.c.
August 4, 2011 at 2:43 pm
If this is a real historical piece of…let say shard. is it even legal to sell those? Shouldn´t be these findings reported to archeological institutions?
August 4, 2011 at 2:43 pm
Shard? Or shart?
August 4, 2011 at 2:50 pm
I was thinking the same exact thing. It’s like our minds are connected.
August 4, 2011 at 2:47 pm
Perhaps not the most distinguishable sculpture, but I do see a lizard of some sort.
It’s actually quite fascinating to me, but I’m just a history nerd XD
August 4, 2011 at 2:48 pm
Nothing this seller says is inaccurate, nor meaningful.
It’s like those HP Tablet ads, “Works like nothing else”, utterly meaningless.
August 4, 2011 at 4:04 pm
Or the photocopier paper company that says its products are “99.9% jam-free.” What am I supposed to do, take the one sheet that jams and send it, crinkled and covered with toner dust, back to the company?
August 4, 2011 at 2:49 pm
I’d say I-GUANO makes more sense than iguana, in this particular case… =p
August 4, 2011 at 3:16 pm
Wait- did SHE collect it in 2010, or was it collected by a Flathead Indian at the turn of the century?
August 4, 2011 at 3:19 pm
That never occurred to me. I just assumed she was the Flathead Indian. I mean, the flathead part is pretty obvious.
(Sincere apologizes to all members of the Flathead Tribe of Montana. I try to keep my racism in check unless I can get a pun out of it.)
August 4, 2011 at 3:27 pm
It looks like a coprolite* to me.
*fossilized turd. It’s vintage!
August 4, 2011 at 4:26 pm
It’s totally a dude humping a teddy bear, a jointed one at least so this piece is high class art at its finest.
August 4, 2011 at 4:47 pm
I think I’ve got it figured out. The seller is clearly a time-traveling Indian.
August 4, 2011 at 5:06 pm
Clearly their spell check corrected “some guano” to “iguana.”
August 5, 2011 at 12:29 pm
I was thinking maybe it was actually iGuano that got autocorrected to iguana. This is a test run of the latest Apple product. It does everything the iPad can do except download and run apps.
August 4, 2011 at 6:15 pm
It’s steam dump art.
August 4, 2011 at 6:37 pm
Okay, here’s my take on it. At the turn of the century, A Flathead Indian from the Montana Tribe collected a Mayan pottery shard which was then apparently kept by his family till this dickweed showed up in 2010 and talked them into giving it to them.
I actually think it’s corprolite the seller found found while digging in their backyard looking for arrowheads, and he made up the story about the Native American to try and justify wanting making you to spend $80 on a piece of shit. Literally.
August 5, 2011 at 6:01 am
No, I’m pretty sure this person is saying they are a member of the Flathead Tribe, and for some reason, they think it’s okay to go collect Mayan artifacts to sell when the American First Nations people have been fighting this very thing for decades.
Hypocrisy? I
hazhave it!August 4, 2011 at 7:02 pm
Does it make things better or worse that I can totally see copulating shit?
August 4, 2011 at 7:23 pm
I..guana know how this is supposed to be an iguana….
August 4, 2011 at 7:42 pm
Looks like someone “sharded”it out!!
August 4, 2011 at 7:46 pm
This pendant speaks to me… it says “I have a cookie press.”
August 4, 2011 at 9:08 pm
Why would anyone sell such a nice piece of shit?
August 4, 2011 at 9:19 pm
The more that I read the word shard, the more it looks like shit.
August 4, 2011 at 10:06 pm
Come on people, it’s turn of the century petrified Indian scat. If that’s not worth $80 I don’t know what is.
August 4, 2011 at 10:09 pm
Taken from the bowels of the earth….