Effigy Jar

56-17-12

From: Venezuela | State of Carabobo | Lake Valencia | La Cabrera

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number 56-17-12
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Venezuela | State of Carabobo | Lake Valencia | La Cabrera
Culture Area Circum-Caribbean
Locus Les Tamarindos trench, Burial 29 K23, under knees of Skeleton 105
Period Valencia Phase
Section American
Materials Ceramic
Description

Red ware, surface badly worn. Restored from sherds. Disc base, vertically compressed globular body, short neck flaring slightly to rim. Human face in applique on neck with 2 rather large pierced lug ears.

Height 16.8 Measurement Unit Not Provided
Outside Diameter 17 Measurement Unit Not Provided
Credit Line Exchange with Peabody Museum, Harvard, 1956
Other Number 33-100-30/443 - Field No SF

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