ThePARIJournal A quarterly publication of the Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute Volume XI, No. 1, Summer 2010 In This Issue: A Hieroglyphic Block from the A Hieroglyphic Region of Hiix Witz, Guatemala Block from the SIMON MARTIN Region of Hiix Witz, University of Pennsylvania Museum Guatemala DORIE REENTS-BUDET by Smithsonian Institution Simon Martin and In recent years, private collectors in process end any possibility of these works Dorie Reents-Budet Guatemala have been registering their entering the international art market, PAGES 1-6 holdings of Precolumbian art with the but it makes them available for scholarly • Registro de Bienes Culturales. This agency, study—thereby enriching both our part of the Instituto de Antropología knowledge of the past and the cultural Palenque from 1560 e Historia (IDAEH), is responsible for patrimony of Guatemala. to 2010 bringing privately held artefacts into the Where Maya objects carry hieroglyphic by official registry of Guatemalan national inscriptions there is the potential of “re- Merle Greene cultural heritage. Not only does this provenancing” them, using mentions of Robertson PAGES 7-16 Joel Skidmore Editor
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[email protected] Electronic version available at: www.mesoweb.com/ pari/journal/1101 The PARI Journal is made possible by a grant from Precolumbia Mesoweb Press ISSN 1531-5398 Figure 1. The hieroglyphic block registered by IDAEH as No. 1.2.144.915 (photograph by Dorie Reents-Budet). The PARI Journal 11(1):1-6. 1 Martin and Reents-Budet pA pB 1 2 Figure 2.