Vessel

Costa Rica, Panama, Pre-Columbian

  • Titles Vessel (Descriptive)
  • Medium clay
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Belle Florey Prosser, AFI.13.2004.185
  • Object Name vessel
  • Classification Containers

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Depicts a healer holding a pecten (scallop) shell to his nose. Shown before the healer is a patient who he places his hands on. A spondyllus shell, another pecten shell, and various unidentified objects also sit before the healer.
Seated Hunchback, Colima culture, Pre-Columbian, fired clay and slip
Pear-shaped, tri-footed, burnished, earthenware jar with creamy-white slip; traces of red pigment in banded patterns around body of vessel and legs - pigment appears to have been removed.
Miniature gold frog.