Adorno
Artist:
PRE-COLUMBIAN/OAXACA
Date: 350-500 CE
Location where collected:Oaxaca, Mexico
Medium: Clay
Classification: Visual Works
Credit Line: Gift of Henry Schnakenberg
Object number: 1954.22.151
DescriptionFragment from the "tocado" (Headdress) of a large urn, brownish coarse clay. The surviving "adornos" (applied standardized motifs) include a face in bird's head helmet (beak missing), three "jewelled feathers" and a fragment of rope. Fineely carved while leather hard, with over-all traces of red paint.
Not on view
In Collection(s)
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