Guatemala | Department of Alta Verapaz | Chama (Guatemala)
Culture Area
Central American
Date Made
8th century
Section
American
Materials
Ceramic
Description
Polychrome ceramic ware, cylindrical, reddish paste, cream slip on exterior, red interior, circumference decorated with pictoral designs painted in several tints of red-orange and sepia on cream slip, red and black lines with typical Chama chevron band at top and bottom, decoration shows seven human figures, two colored band five red, in ceremony, each figure accompanied by two to four glyphs, intact except for crack
Danien, Elin C. Guide to the Mesoamerican Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002. See: p. 90, pl. 102
Anton, Ferdinand, Frederick J. Dockstader, Kathleen M. Trowell, and Hans Nevermann. Primitive Art: Pre-Columbian, American Indian, African, Oceanic. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 01 Jul 1979. See: p. 126
Madeira, Percy C. Men in Search of Man: The First Seventy-Five Years of the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1964. See: p. 84
