Urn
53-47-12
From: Argentina | Tucuman Province
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 53-47-12 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Diaguita |
| Provenience | Argentina | Tucuman Province |
| Culture Area | Andean |
| Locus | Colalao del Valle |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Funerary urn. Red ware; black and red on cream paint. Concave base (bottom missing), sides expanding for about one-third the body height, then slightly rounded and merging into a high, very wide neck with straight sides outturned at rim (most of rim missing) 2 horizontal strap handles (one broken) very low on body. Decoration: on exterior: overall pattern of squared meanders, dotted straight and angled bands; and on upper part-stylized serpents, birds, bird elements. On rim interior, angular meander. |
| Height | 56 cm |
| Credit Line | Exchange with Museo Ethnographico, Buenos Aires, 1953 |
| Other Number | 11378 - Other Number |
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