Light, water & colours
in the Americas
- An SRU workshop -
(programme)
09.30-10.00 Penny Dransart and George Lau
Welcome and introduction
10.00-10.30 Elizabeth Baquedano
"The colour of the Lord of the Underworld in codices of Highland Central Mexico"
10.30-11.00 Colin McEwan and Ann Peters
"Hairy issues: serpents, hair, blood and water on the South Coast"
11.00-11.20 Tea and coffee
11.20-11.50 Ann Peters
"Social relationships and colour relationships in a foggy desert: Evidence from tombs at Paracas and Ocucaje, 150 BC – AD 250"
11.50-12.20 Nicholas Saunders
"Sacred moisture in the Americas"
12.20-12.50 Warwick Bray
Discussion
12.50-14.20 Lunch
14.20-14.50 Gary Urton
"Archives of colors: khipu and k’uychi"
14.50-15.20 Penelope Dransart
Title TBA
15.20-15.40 Tea and coffee
15.40-16.10 Barbara Saunders
"What can be said about the 'Colour Terms' of the Kwakwaka'wakw?"
16.10-[end] Denise Arnold
Discussion
Closing remarks (organisers)
17.00-18.30
Reception
19.00
Supper
In late pre-Hispanic times a dark cloud constellation in the Milky Way, including the fox (Atoq) was associated with the June solstice (Fox headdress ornament, Peru, Vicus-Moche style, AD 1-800, UEA 599)