Vessels, Tools and Beads (187)

Costa Rica, Panama, Pre-Columbian

  • Titles Vessels, Tools and Beads (187) (Descriptive)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Belle Florey Prosser, AFI.13.2004.1-.187
  • Object Name vessels, tools, beads
  • Classification Furnishings and Equipment

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A globular body with long waisted neck and flared rim. Two sides with loop handles. The surface with a Spanish-derived ochre, alkaline glaze. With glaze streaking and diring marks.
Vessel, Mexico, Pre-Columbian, earthenware
Face with furrowed brow, lowered eyelids, puckered lips, and bulging cheeks. Ears pierced; rope-like band extending from ear to ear across back of head. Deep vertical groove in back.
Standing female figure with outstretched arms, close fitting bonnet, burnished red slip