Figurine

58-17-118A

From: Brazil | Bananal Island | Araguaia River

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number 58-17-118A
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Karaja
Provenience Brazil | Bananal Island | Araguaia River
Culture Area East Brazil
Section American
Materials Ceramic
Iconography Man?
Description

Pottery; unslipped buff; one arm and lower half of one leg missing; other leg and head glued; long flowing hair (hood?) of brown wax, wax spot on chest; figure probably male, legs and buttocks very rounded, upper body very flat; nose short, straight; eyes two incised circles, line for mouth, four parallel horizontal lines around arm, three above knee; some horizontal and vertical lines below knee, straight lines run forward and backward from side of legs, one pair meeting at center back, other at navel indicated by hole.

Credit Line Bequest of Harry B. Wright, 1958

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