Urn

53-47-12

From: Argentina | Tucuman Province

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number 53-47-12
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Diaguita
Provenience Argentina | Tucuman Province
Culture Area Andean
Locus Colalao del Valle
Section American
Materials Ceramic
Description

Funerary urn. Red ware; black and red on cream paint. Concave base (bottom missing), sides expanding for about one-third the body height, then slightly rounded and merging into a high, very wide neck with straight sides outturned at rim (most of rim missing) 2 horizontal strap handles (one broken) very low on body. Decoration: on exterior: overall pattern of squared meanders, dotted straight and angled bands; and on upper part-stylized serpents, birds, bird elements. On rim interior, angular meander.

Height 56 cm
Credit Line Exchange with Museo Ethnographico, Buenos Aires, 1953
Other Number 11378 - Other Number

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