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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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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Mixteken
Object type
Clay can
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 11,4 x 8,2 x 8,5 cm
Gewicht: 0,15 kg
Material/Technique
Clay (painted)
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 28348

Provenance and sources

when
1350 - 1550
where
Mexico
Oaxaca
Nochistlán
who
Florimond Duc de Loubat (1831-03-31 - 1927-02-28)
Mixteken

who
Seler, Eduard - Collectors

Description
Donated by the Duke of Loubat in 1908

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