This Week: Terra Cotta Warriors

The museum had a long display case with sculptured figures showing the steps in assembling a soldier and a horse.  This case was one of my favorite pieces.  For the real pieces there were different teams of workers that assembled artifacts for the tomb.  Archeologists have identified 87 different team seals.  Each team had between 8-15 people and were expected to make 7 warriors a year.  This part of the case shows the workers assembling a horse.

A word about this week's Flickr Footnote.  The museum has hired an actor from China who takes on the role of a live warrior.  He is so much fan and is a very skilled performer.  He stands perfectly still like a statue and even has a platform in one of the exhibit rooms.  But he is very much alive as startled visitors find out when they are examining him up close and he turns his head to look at them.  He made an appearance during our photo shoot.

Flickr Footnote: This "warrior" was incredible! by DigiNee