Healing Figure

Tumaco culture, Pre-Columbian

-300 - 300

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mask, mouth; skirt; cape; earplug; sandal
Vessel, Mexico, Pre-Columbian, earthenware
Earthenware bowl with light brown clay body under red slip, burnished, and incised through the slip. Bowl forms body of standing animal figure, probably a jaguar, and four curved legs and feet support the bowl. Jaguar head has open grimacing mouth with peg-like teeth, bulbous nose, round ears. A pointed, hollow, stumpy tail emerges from rear of bowl. Surface of vessel adorned with incised patterns.
Vessel (Kero), Sicán culture, Pre-Columbian, gold and tumbaga (copper and silver alloy)