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Effigy ceramic vesse.
1200 1400 material and technique.
Ceramic and slip paints classification.
Arts of the americas location.
The most dramatic sculpted clay images made by late mississippian potters are the death s head effigy ceramic vessels.
For example holmes 1886 166 correctly identified a ceramic vessel from arkansas as repre senting a sunfish and later noted in many cases birds.
1400 n gilcrease museum rd tulsa ok 74127.
Not on view credit line.
The ruler is depicted wearing a material turban on which there is a headdress decorated by a two headed bird with feathers on side.
Dallas museum of art gift of the dozier foundation copyright.
Thomas gilcrease institute of american history and art.
Effigy ceramic vessels in our sample were found in this region.
Various types some with damage.
The ceramic portrait is also an example of a stirrup spout vessel of a moche ruler.
On may 30 2020.
20 64 15 56 20 96 cm department.
3 owl effigy ceramic vessels.
We are not the first researchers to attempt family genus identification of ceramic fish effigies from the study area.
Effigy pots are emblematic of the cultures artistic floresence and ritual life and the vessels in the curtiss collection provide archaeologists with a rich vocabulary for describing and interpreting the iconography of mississippian peoples.
A ceramic single spout vessel in the form of a standing viscay a large member of the rabbit family noted by its long ears.
Catalogue description large ceramic effigy vessel in the form of a snarling four footed animal probably a jaguar with a vessel form on its back and a long thick downturned tail.
The effigy also wears tubular earrings that can be found in the gold and silver gallery of the larco museum.
New technologies recently allowed scientists to re examine them and discover that most were not locally made indicating extensive trade among native peoples in the southeast.
They were made during the late mississippian period sometime between a d.
The back paws rest on the ground.
8 1 8 6 1 8 8 1 4 in.
Pre columbian and southwestern u s.