DIG! The Maya Project Credits

DIG! The Maya Project is a web-based game that focuses on Maya art and culture. The game was created through a partnership between the Dallas Museum of Art and the Institute for Interactive Arts and Engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Project Directors:
Gail Davitt, The Dallas Museum of Art League Director of Education
Tom Linehan, Ph.D., Director of the Institute for Interactive Arts and Engineering and Professor of Aesthetics, University of Texas at Dallas

Project Coordinators:
Nicole Stutzman, Manager of School Partnerships
Tony Tyler, Ph.D. student, Aesthetic Studies, University of Texas at Dallas

Curator:
Carol Robbins, The Ellen and Harry S. Parker III Curator of the Arts of the Americas and the Pacific

Assisting University of Texas at Dallas Students:
Derrick Chen
Tim Christopher
Monica Evans
Christopher Evans
Hari Gadiraju
Don Huff
Wendi Kavanaugh
Kathryn Klaene
Rene Moffat
Steve Petterborg
Wendell Reynolds
Jeff Senita
Shree Shankar
Russell Smith
Ken Starzer
Steven Strobel
Stefani Taylor
Thomas Vadisirisakdi

Special thanks to:
Margaret Anne Cullum, Docent
David Friedel, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University

Dallas Museum of Art Artworks

Pendant with horizontal figure
Mexico: Maya culture
c. A.D. 600-900 (Late Classic period)
Jadeite
H 1 3/8 x W 3 ¼ x D 9/16 in.
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Art Association purchase, 1968.5

Royal belt ornament
Mexico or Guatemala: Maya culture
c. A.D. 500-700 (Classic period)
Jadeite
H 5 1/8 x W 6 5/8 x D 1 5/8 in.
Dallas Museum of Art, The Nora and John Wise Collection, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Jake L. Hamon, the Eugene McDermott Family, Mr. and Mrs. Algur H. Meadows and the Meadows Foundation, and Mr. and Mrs. John D. Murchison, 1982.W.2

Lidded vessel with an old god riding a peccary
Mexico: state of Campeche (?), Maya culture
c. A.D. 250-600 (Early Classic period)
Ceramic
H 9 1/8 x Diameter 6 3/16 in.
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Art Association purchase, 1972.10.a-b

Incised bone depicting an accession ceremony
Mexico or Guatemala: Maya culture
c. A.D. 600-900 (Late Classic period)
Bone
H 3 1/4 x W 1 9/16 in.
Dallas Museum of Art, The Otis and Velma Davis Dozier Fund,1988.129

Tablet depicting two royal women and a jaguarian beast
Guatemala: department of El Petén, probably La Corona, Maya culture
Dedicated August 18, 731 (Late Classic period)
Limestone
H 28 ½ x W 28 ¼ x D 4 in.
Dallas Museum of Art, The Eugene and Margaret McDermott Art Fund, Inc., in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick M. Mayer, 1988.15.McD

Carved tripod cylindrical vessel with two enthroned lords
Mexico: Maya culture
c. A.D. 600-900 (Late Classic period)
Ceramic
H 11 1/16 x diameter 7 15/16 in.
Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene McDermott and the Eugene McDermott Foundation and Mr. and Mrs. Algur H. Meadows and the Meadows Foundation, Incorporated, 1973.33

Hand object with three profile heads
Mexico or Guatemala: Maya culture
c. A.D. 600-900 (Late Classic period)
Flint
H 4 ¼ x W 7 5/16 in.
Dallas Museum of Art, The Roberta Coke Camp Fund, 1978.39.1

Wall panel depicting Lady Bolon-K'an in ritual dress
Mexico: state of Tabasco, Pomoná, Maya culture
c. A.D. 750-800 (Late Classic period)
Limestone, stucco, and paint
H 86 ¾ x W 30 ¼ x D 6 in.
Dallas Museum of Art, Foundation for the Arts Collection, gift of Mr. and Mrs. James H. Clark, 1968.39.FA

Cylindrical vessel with ritual ballgame scene
Guatemala: department of El Petén, Maya culture
c. A.D. 700-850 (Late Classic period)
Ceramic
H 8 1/16 x diameter 6 1/4 in.
Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher, 1983.148

Eccentric flint depicting a crocodile canoe with passengers
Mexico or Guatemala: southern Maya lowlands, Maya culture
c. A.D. 600-900 (Late Classic period)
Flint
H 9 ¾ x W 16 ¼ x D ¾ in.
Dallas Museum of Art, The Eugene and Margaret McDermott Art Fund, Inc., in honor of Mrs. Alex Spence, 1983.45.McD

Lidded tetrapod bowl with paddler and peccaries
Mexico or Guatemala: Maya culture
c. A.D. 250-600 (Early Classic period)
Ceramic and cinnabar
H 12 x diameter 9 1/4 in.
Dallas Museum of Art, The Roberta Coke Camp Fund
1988.82.a-b

Photography
The Maya: Some of the Basics: Caracol Observatory, Chichén Itzá, Mexico
Jade necklace
Jungle, Mexico
Photographed by Monica Evans
Courtesy of Monica Evans

Resources
Coe, Michael. The Maya. London : Thames and Hudson, 1980.

Freidel, David, Linda Schele, and Joy Parker. Maya Cosmos: Three Thousand Years on the Shaman's Path. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1993.

Freidel, David and Stanley Gunter. “Bearers of War and Creation.” Archaeology.org, Online content, January 2003.

Miller, Mary and Karl Taube. The Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya: An Illustrated Dictionary of Mesoamerican Religion. New York: Thames & Hudson, 1993.

Miller, Mary and Simon Martin. Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya. San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2004.

Prensky, Marc. Digital Game-Based Learning. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000.

Reents-Budet, Dorie. Painting the Maya Universe: Royal Ceramics of the Classic Period. Durham & London: Duke University Press, 1994.

Schele, Linda and Mary Ellen Miller. The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art. New York: George Braziller, Inc., in association with the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 1986.

Schellhas, Paul. Representations of Deities of the Maya Manuscripts. Peabody Museum Papers 4:1, 1904

Tedlock, Dennis. Popul Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986, c1985.