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Sculptures Showing Africans in the Americas before Columbus
OLMEC HEAD SHOWING BLACK AFRICAN FEATURES
This head wears a helmet and has African features as well as straight eyes as well as the Negroid chin.
AFRICAN-OLMEC (THE BLACK
CIVILIZATION OF ANCIENT MEXICO
AFRICAN-OLMEC HEAD WITH
This head has a genetic feature that
is found among Africans in Ghana. That feature is the distinct
line on the lips that was so expertly carved in. The Helmet is
also similar to helmets created by the Pan-Nubian civilization
that spread from Southern Egypt and Sudan to West Africa.
AFRICAN-OLMEC HEAD OF IMPORTANT WARRIOR-KING
The people who carved these heads
would never have taken the time to glorify people who were not
in a very high position. The people represented in the faces of
these heads may have led a great dynasty of Black Kings who
ruled for more than two thousand years in Mexico and who
eventually became absorbed into the Indian population due to
mixing. Thus, their culture and traditions became part of the
Indian culture that followed (Mayas, Aztecs, ect.), however,
there is evidence that the Olmecs existed and continued their
culture up to about 400 AD. Many migrated to lands in the North
(United States) and the South (South America).
HEAD OF MAYA MAGICIAN
The Magicians of Olmec history were
described as "dwarfish" Negroid people who began a religious
order in Mexico about 800 to 600 BC. This head shows a magician
with a snake in his mouth. The purpose of the snake in ancient
African religious ceremonies as a symbol of fertility and power
is to help bring good fortune.
WEST AFRICAN MAGICIAN WITH SNAKE PASSING THROUGH NOSE AND MOUTH
This bronze sculpture of a West
African Shaman with a snake passing throught the nose and mouth
looks similar to that of the Maya Africoid magician with a snake
pasing through the mouth.
This sculpture shows a combination
of Black African and Indian racial features and points to what
led to the breakup of the African-Olmec culture as they became
more mixed, were driven out of power or lost their ability to
maintain their cultrue as others overtook them. This lesson is
one that African-Americans and other African peope must learn if
they are to survive anywhere on earth.
ORIGINAL BLACK MOJAVE NATIVE OF CALIFORNIA
Black African-Americans are composed
of two main groups of Blacks, those who were in the US and the
rest of the Americas before Columbus and were enslaved due to
the Church Edict of the 1440's, and those who were enslaved and
brought from Africa after 1492.
This is one of the rare pictures
(many are no doubt hidden of a Black Californian at a mission
with a cowbell in one hand and a cross in the other (not shown).
This pictures shows the Black Californian wearing a necklace
similar to that of the picture with the Black Californian
warrior with bow and arrows.
AFRICOID HEAD FROM SEPIC MOUND IN OHIO
The region from Ohio to Mississippi and from California to Florida had a prehistoric and preColumbian Black population. There are many clues and pieces of evidence that show this to be true, including the fact that the descendants of one such group, the Washitaw Nation is recognized as a distinct Black nation and is said to have once controled a significant amount of land in the Mississippi Valley.
MASK OF PERSON FROM TEOTECHUACAN CULTURE
The mask to the left can represent either American Indian of somone of Nubian/West African origins with what is called "Mongoloid" eyes such as the Nuer woman above.
AFRO-DARIENITE INDIAN FROM PANAMA; BLACK CALIFORNIAN MOJAVE FROM CALIFORNIA
These pictures represent modern
Blacks from the Americas whose ancestors were in the Americas
before Columbus. The man on the left with a bow and arrow
belongs to the Afro-Darienite people, most likely a descendant
of one of the groups of "Ethiopians," that were seen in Darien
by Balboa and Peter Matyr's people when they sailed through the