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

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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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