Effigy Jar

40-15-355

From: Panama | Sitio Conte

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 40-15-355
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Cocle
Provenience Panama | Sitio Conte
Site Name Sitio Conte
Culture Area Central American
Locus B16
Section American
Materials Ceramic
Iconography Crab
Description

Polychrome. Red and purple, outlined in black, on light buff. Flat base; straight expanding lower body; low convex upper body; equator fluted for half of circumference; concave expanding neck; flat everted lip. Spout from shoulder to lip, rising above rim. Crab effigy. Upper body paneled red and purple. Lower with stylized crab claws.

Height 15.8 cm
Outside Diameter 18.18 cm
Credit Line Panama, Cocle Expedition; J. Alden Mason, 1940
Other Number B-16.26 - Field No SF

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