Effigy Jar

34-33-23

From: Mexico (Central America) | Chihuahua | Corralitos Ranch | Casas Grandes

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 34-33-23
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Mexico (Central America) | Chihuahua | Corralitos Ranch | Casas Grandes
Culture Area Southwest Culture Area
Section American
Materials Clay
Description

Chihuahua Polychrome ware, cracked. Design in brown and red on buff is partly worn off. A globular jar with zonal decoration of oblique parallel lines and the scroll still showing. A pottery porjection above the rim, measuring 5 cm. high and 8 cm. wide, has a human face with lips, chin, eyes, nose, eyebrows and top of head piece in raised relief; red paint still adheres in spots on the face. The rim of the half of the orifice to which the projection is not attached has slightly thickened exterior.

Height 9.5 cm
Outside Diameter 11 cm
Credit Line Exchange with Harold S. Gladwin, Gila Pueblo, 1934
Other Number 03836 - Other Number

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