Effigy Jar

40-15-338

From: Panama | Sitio Conte

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 40-15-338
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Cocle
Provenience Panama | Sitio Conte
Site Name Sitio Conte
Culture Area Central American
Locus B-16
Date Made 450 - 900 CE
Section American
Materials Ceramic
Description

Polychrome: red, black and a little purple on white. Low annular base. Globular body modified to triangle by bird form. Small flat knob tail. Head broken and mostly missing. Wings painted with scroll with claw in center. Resembles Lothrop, fig. 219B. Broken.

Height 16.3 cm
Outside Diameter 14 cm
Credit Line Panama, Cocle Expedition; J. Alden Mason, 1940
Other Number B16 - 6 - Field No SF

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