Bowl

35-28-186

From: Venezuela | Cojoro

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number 35-28-186
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Venezuela | Cojoro
Culture Area Circum-Caribbean
Locus Guajiro
Section American
Materials Ceramic
Description

Hemispherical with slight shoulder and thickened rim. Extending from the rim to the shoulder are two loop handles, each surmounted by an animal head. Halfway between the handles on each side of the vessel there is an incised lug. Band of incised pendant trianglese each filled with parallel incised lines, below the rim on the exterior. One head is missing. Unslipped ware, crudely polished; blackened by fire.

Height 12 cm
Outside Diameter 23 cm
Credit Line University Museum / Columbia University Venezuelan Expedition; Vincenzo Petrullo, 1935

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