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Clay vessel

Three-legged jug with a flowing neck. The slightly concave neck is heavily fragmented. The zoomorphic legs have small, round openings and rattle beads. The object has been smoothed, slurried and primed on both sides. Its exterior is polychrome painted and polished. The primer and paint are partially eroded. The ceramic has a white-yellowish base colour, which was painted red-orange and black-brown on the outside of the object. There is a circumferential frieze with stepped elements on the neck. Below this is a high, circumferential frieze showing Mesoamerican pictorial elements (limb motif?, head). The legs are formed by three zoomorphic heads wearing black masks. According to Lothrop 1926: two headed dragon pattern, type A. Cultural significance: the ornamentation of the object alludes to Mesoamerican themes. (Künne 2004)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Object type
crock
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 16,7 x 18,6 x 16,5 cm
Mündung: 8 cm
Wandstärke: 0,45 cm - 0,7 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 41124

Provenance and sources

when
800 - 1550
where
Costa Rica
Guanacaste [Provinz]
Santa Cruz [Kanton]
Santa Bárbara [Ort]

who
Lehmann, Walter - Former Possessors

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