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Filename: 
MawM0127-000.jp2
Identifying Number: 
MawM0127
Title: 
Orangeware effigy vessel : deity Simian.
Subject: 
Effigy pottery--Central America
Subject: 
Ceramic tableware--Central America
Subject: 
Drinking vessels--Central America
Subject: 
Maya art--Central America
Subject: 
Mayas--Antiquities
Subject: 
Indigenous peoples--Antiquities
Description: 
A small appliqued cylinder with an anthropomorphic face and a fanged mouth, whiskers incised on the brow, and around the fanged mouth suggests a deity.
Materials: 
Ceramic (earthenware): gray clay; bichrome; plumbate glaze, incised.
Publisher: 
California State University, Los Angeles
Date: 
between 500 and 800
Type: 
Artifact
Object Type: 
Vessel
Object Type: 
Effigy
Dimensions: 
6 1/16 in high x 3 1/8 in diameter
Collection: 
MAW Collection
Location: 
Maya region, Central America
Rights: 
Physical collection housed at California State University, Los Angeles. | MATERIALS ARE IN COPYRIGHT | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
Culture: 
Maya
Period: 
Late Classic