Effigy Jar
34-33-23
From: Mexico (Central America) | Chihuahua | Corralitos Ranch | Casas Grandes
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 34-33-23 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Mexico (Central America) | Chihuahua | Corralitos Ranch | Casas Grandes |
| Culture Area | Southwest Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Clay |
| Description | Chihuahua Polychrome ware, cracked. Design in brown and red on buff is partly worn off. A globular jar with zonal decoration of oblique parallel lines and the scroll still showing. A pottery porjection above the rim, measuring 5 cm. high and 8 cm. wide, has a human face with lips, chin, eyes, nose, eyebrows and top of head piece in raised relief; red paint still adheres in spots on the face. The rim of the half of the orifice to which the projection is not attached has slightly thickened exterior. |
| Height | 9.5 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 11 cm |
| Credit Line | Exchange with Harold S. Gladwin, Gila Pueblo, 1934 |
| Other Number | 03836 - Other Number |
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