Adorno

Artist PRE-COLUMBIAN/OAXACA

Date350-500 CE

Location where collectedOaxaca, Mexico

MediumClay

ClassificationsVisual Works

Credit LineGift of Henry Schnakenberg

Object number1954.22.151

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.

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