Figurine

60-14-48

From: Mexico (Central America) | Veracruz (Mexico) | Cerro de las Mesas

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number 60-14-48
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Mexico (Central America) | Veracruz (Mexico) | Cerro de las Mesas
Culture Area Central American
Section American
Materials Ceramic
Description

fine paste, painted fugitive red and black, head with flattened top, each eye depicted bu three dots in a row, prominent modeled snout, hole at each side of head forming long perforation, body is a smooth oval, hollow and has five holed, arra nged in a circle on the front, appliqued ornament [?] at base of snout, small piece of clay which rattles inside body

Height 5.1 cm
Width 2.7 cm
Thickness 0.2 cm
Credit Line Cerro de las Mesas Expedition, F.G. Rainey and M.W. Stirling, 1960

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