Doll

Chimu culture, Pre-Columbian

1370 - 1430

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Bowl, Mexico, Pre-Columbian, earthenware
Bowl, Mexico, Pre-Columbian, earthenware
An important bowl from the Peten area; has scene from underworld; principle figure is deer in black and white; two seated figures; above the deer is a red tab containing two vertical glyphs. there is a red and black rim band and a similar basal band. Figures painted in red outlined in black; all on orange ground.
Burnished, globular, earthenware vessel with reddish clay body and polychrome has wide, flaring mouth, small appliquéd human figure where shoulder joins rim, and geometric patterns in red outlined in black on shoulder.