Neck Sherd

40-16-1464

From: Panama | Sitio Conte

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 40-16-1464
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Cocle
Provenience Panama | Sitio Conte
Site Name Sitio Conte
Culture Area Central American
Locus Burial 11, SQ. 2
Date Made 450 - 900 CE
Section American
Materials Ceramic
Iconography Human Face
Description

Large, broken neck of a large vessel. Flange rim, most of it missing. Carinated. Upper part of neck painted with wide vertical bands of red and purple on white. Human face in relief on lower part of neck. Painted red, purple and white. All paint badly eroded, a ridge runs across top of face and along its sides. 3 rounded lugs on back of neck.

Credit Line Panama, Cocle Expedition; J. Alden Mason, 1940

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