Become a Virtual Reality Explorer in Cerámica de los Ancestros

Virtual Reality Experiences Await Discovery

The Cerámica de los Ancestros gallery is laced with invisible Virtual Reality (VR) links to immersive and informative content from around the Web. The links float invisibly atop many of the exhibit panels. Use your phone or tablet to reveal these Virtual Reality links to 360º panoramas of rainforests and ancient ruins, videos of indigenous people discussing their lifeways and the secrets of their homelands, as well as documentaries about archeological explorations both past and present. The Virtual Links are designed to help you take your exploration beyond our walls; to resources from around the web. The content is not ours, but rather interesting features and points of view from the wider world.  If you choose to explore, please share your experiences and discoveries in the comments sections of this blog.

Gather Up Your Virtual Reality Explorer's Tool Bag

You'll need a tool and data to get started. To reveal the Virtual world around you 

1. load the Aurasma app on your iOS or Android device,
   (http://sn.im/aurasmaios or http://sn.im/aurasmaandroid)
2. visit http://sn.im/ceramica to load our data, and
3. point your camera at the special panels. 

You can also find the VR content by reading through this blog if you aren't able to visit our Museum in-person. We want everyone to have a chance to learn more.

Seeking Out the Virtual Reality Labels

Each of the 7 Central American regions presented in this exhibition opens with three panels

1. Region, 
2. Indigenous People and 
3. Focal Site. 

After loading Aurasma and our data (1 & 2 above), point your camera at any of these panels and Virtual Reality images will appear atop the panels. Tap the images, or wait a few seconds and the links will load automatically.

When visiting the 360º panoramic images for the first time,  you will see a graphic inviting you to download a panorama viewer. You don't need it. Just click no and the panorama will load in Aurasma. 

Explore and Enjoy. And remember to share your thoughts in the comments.

Greater Chiriquí Region

Visit the Aguila De Osa Forest in Costa Rica

Click the image to take a spin through the Aguila de Osa forest as it has likely appeared to the indigenous peoples of the Chiriquí Region since Pre-Columbian times.

The Greater Chiriquí Region Panel

Early Chiriqui peoples cultivated manioc, maize, palm fruit, and avocado; hunted deer, peccary, and birds; fished; and gathered wild foods. By about AD 400, they relied heavily on maize agriculture and occupied villages of more than 150 people with central plazas. Leaders of the largest villages rose in prominence, signaling their power by building large conical houses atop stone platforms, sometimes flanked by monumental stone spheres. Towns with a resident chief boasted plazas and cemeteries with stone statuary. Gold jewelry replaced jadeite objects as chiefly symbols. Villages may have specialized in producing jewelry, ceramics, or other high-quality crafts, and their exchange connected people across the region.

THE GREATER CHIRIQUI´ REGION

LA REGIO´N DE GRAN CHIRIQUI´

Los primeros pobladores de Chiriqui cultivaban mandioca, maiz, frutos de palma y aguacate; cazaban ciervos, javefcias y aves; pescaban y recogian alimentos silvestres. Alrededor de 400 dC, su subsistencia dependia mucho del cultivo del maiz y vivian en pueblos de mas de 150 personas con plazas centrales. La importancia de los lideres de las aldeas mas grandes fue aumentando y para manifestaiia se construyeron grandes ca conicas sobre plataformas de piedra, que algunas veces estabar rodeadas de esferas monumentales de piedra. Los pueblos con un jefe que residia alii se enorgullecian de sus plazas y cementerios que tenian estatuas de piedra. Las joyas de oro fueron remplazando a los objetos de jadeita como simbolos d poder. Las aldeas quizas se especializaban en la produccion de joyas, piezas de ceramics, u otras artesanias de alta calida y e) intercambio de estos objetos vinculaba a las personas en toda la region.

Greater Chiríqui Indigenous Peoples

The Guaymí of Costa Rica

Manuel Salinas
Ensayo Fotográfico Documental
Comunidad indigena Guaymí: procesos de hibridación cultural.

The Greater Chiriquí Indigenous Peoples Panel

The Greater Chiriquí region stretches from the Diquis area in southern Costa Rica across the western half of Panama, and is characterized by distinct dry and rainy seasons.

CONTEMPORARY INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

Guaymi peoples, including the Ngóbe and Bokota (Buglé), descend from earlier Panamanian peoples and occupy the Ngóbe-Buglé Comarca (indigenous territory) in Bocas del Toro, Chiriquí, and Veraguas provinces in Panama.  The homelands of the Teribe (Naso) people lie in Bocas del Toro Province.

La region de Gran Chiriqui se extiende desde fa zona de Diqui's en el sur de Costa Rica hasta la mitad occidental de Panama, y se caracteriza por una estacioV) seca y otra de lluvia.

PUEBLOS INDI´GENAS CONTEMPORANEOS

Los pueblos guaymfes, inclusive los ng6bes y los bokotas (bugles), son descendientes de pueblos panamenos anteriores y ocupan la Comarca Ngdbe- Bugle (territorio indigena) en las provincias panamenas de Bocas del Toro, Chiriqui y Veraguas. El territorio del pueblo teribe (naso) se encuentra en la provincia de Bocas del Toro.

Chiriquí Region Focal Site: Finca 6

Spheres - Esferas de Costa Rica

By YouTuber MrSandorman1 -

The archaeological site Cultivates 6 forms a part of the Project "Investigation and Value of  Archaeological Sites with pre-Columbian Spheres, Delta of the Diquís, South-east of Costa Rica" sponsored by the National Museum of Costa Rica. 

The Greater Chiriquí Region Focal Site: Finca 6 Panel

GREATER CHIRIQUI´ REGION FOCAL SITE: FINCA 6

Finca 6, on Costa Rica's Diquis Delta, is one of the few sites where stone spheres have been found in their original positions. First settled about AD 300, it became a major town after AD 800. Chiefs commanding large communal labor forces built their houses on stone platforms, commissioning huge stone spheres to signify their power and mark territorial boundaries. Chiefs at Finca 6 likely controlled important natural resources, including gold deposits on the Osa Peninsula, and strategic north-south trade routes. 

SITIO ARQUEOLO´GICO DE ENFOQUE EN LA REGION DE GRAN CHIRIQUI´ FINCA 6

La Finca 6, en el delta del Diquis (Costa Rica), es uno de los pocos sitios donde se han encontrado esferas de piedra en sus posiciones originales. Los primeros pobladores se asentaron alrededor del ano 300 dC y se convirtio en una ciudad importante despues del ano 800 dC. Los caciques al mando de las grandes fuerzas laborales de la comunidad construian sus casas sobre plataformas de piedra, y mandaban a colocar enormes esferas de piedra para indicar su poder y marcar los llmites territoriales. Es probable que los caciques de la Finca 6 controlaran importantes recursos naturales, incluidos los depositos de oro de la Peninsula de Osa y las rutas comerciales estrategicas que unian el norte con el sur.

Digitizing Artifacts at the National Museum of Costa Rica

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Cataloging Artifacts at the National Museum of Costa Rica

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Puzzle Pieces at the National Museum of Costa Rica

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Tablets at the Table - National Museum of Costa Rica

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Unboxing the Collection at the National Museum of Costa Rica

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Preserving Culture at the National Museum of Costa Rica

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