Bowl
53-47-10
From: Argentina | Catamarca Province | Fuerte Quemado
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 53-47-10 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Diaguita |
| Provenience | Argentina | Catamarca Province | Fuerte Quemado |
| Culture Area | Andean |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Redware; black on bright red paint on both surfaces. Hemispherical with concave base. Two ear-like lugs below rim. Decoration: on exterior, large latticed meanders; on interior, five bands, of whoch the middle one is of stylized birds, the next two of very much conventionalized serpents, and the outer two repectively a diamond shaped checker motif and an unidentified motif of vertical and horizontal lines. Exterior surface worn; rim damaged. |
| Credit Line | Exchange with Museo Ethnographico, Buenos Aires, 1953 |
| Other Number | 11240 - Other Number |
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