Effigy Cup
37-12-44A
Location: On Display in the Into the Blue: The Pursuit of Color
From: Guatemala | Department of Alta Verapaz | Chimuxan | Saite | Cahabon Drainage
Curatorial Section: American
Object Number | 37-12-44A |
Current Location | Into the Blue: The Pursuit of Color - On Display |
Culture | Post-Classic Maya |
Provenience | Guatemala | Department of Alta Verapaz | Chimuxan | Saite | Cahabon Drainage |
Culture Area | Central American |
Locus | Lower cave |
Date Made | 1000-1200 |
Section | American |
Materials | Ceramic |
Technique | Painted |
Description | painted red blue and cream, in form of head of god with large perforated mouth and great filed tau shaped tooth, large eyes with rung under them, originally rested on three small nodes |
Height | 13.2 cm |
Width | 18 cm |
Depth | 14 cm |
Credit Line | Guatemalan Expedition; Robert Burkitt, 1937 |
Other Number | 1154 - Field No SF | 204 - Other Number | B-42 86 - Other Number |
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