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Clay can

The area around Nochistlan in the Mixteca Alta appears to have been a centre for the production of polychrome pottery with the typical painting of the so-called "Codex" style. Seler acquired the vessel during his second trip to Mexico in 1895, during which he also stayed in Nochistlan. In her travelogue, his wife, Caecilie Seler-Sachs, mentions "splendidly painted fine clay vessels" that were found in graves around Nochistlan (Seler-Sachs, Caecilie, Auf alten Wegen in Mexiko und Guatemala. Reiseerinnerungen aus den Jahren 1895-97, Berlin 1925, 2nd edition: 31f.). Jugs of this type in the so-called "pilitas" style are attributed to the Natividad/Chila phase (Lind 1994: 81, 89).

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Mixteken
Object type
Clay can
Dimensions
Height: 11,4 cm
Depth: 8,5 cm
Width: 8,2 cm
Weight: 0,151 kg
Material/Technique
Clay (painted)
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 28348

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1350 - 1550
    where
    Mexico
    Oaxaca
    Nochistlán
    who
    Florimond Duc de Loubat (1831-03-31 - 1927-02-28)
    Mixteken
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Donated by the Duke of Loubat in 1908
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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