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Effigy Vessel

Object Number:40-15-72
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Cocle
Provenience: Panama
Sitio Conte
Site Name/Number: Sitio Conte
Culture Area: Central American
Locus: Burial 14, 4
Section:American
Materials:Ceramic
Iconography:Armadillo
Height: 16 cm
Length: 19 cm
Credit Line:Panama, Cocle Expedition; J. Alden Mason, 1940
Other Number:B14, 4 - Field No SF

Description

Polychrome. Armadillo resting on hind legs and tail; forepaws painted on buff lower surface; head off. Short neck of vessel with disc rim attached to vertical tube from body. Painting showing bands of body and tail in black ticked lines; body cross-hatched in black. Broad bands of red outlined black.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

River of Gold: Pre-Columbian Treasures from Sitio Conte (2nd showing) (21 Mar 1992 - 18 Oct 1992) View Objects in Exhibition
River of Gold: Pre-Colombian Treasures from Sitio Conte (09 Apr 1988 - 22 May 1988) View Objects in Exhibition
River of Gold: Pre-Columbian Treasures from Sitio Conte (23 Sep 2007 - 16 Dec 2007) View Objects in Exhibition
Beneath the Surface: Life, Death, and Gold in Ancient Panama (07 Feb 2015 - 02 Nov 2015) View Objects in Exhibition
South American Gallery (1955 - 1994) View Objects in Exhibition

Bibliography:

[Book] Sharer, Robert J., and Hearne Jardine, Pamela H. 1992. River of Gold: Precolumbian Treasures from Sitio Conte.. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: Plate 72View Objects related to this Actual Citation

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