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Filename: 
MawM0158-000.jp2
Identifying Number: 
MawM0158
Title: 
Tripodal rattle bowl with a day sign : eagle head 15th day.
Subject: 
Ceramic bowls--Mexico--Oaxaca (State)
Subject: 
Bowls (Tableware)--Mexico--Oaxaca (State)
Subject: 
Zapotec art--Mexico--Oaxaca (State)
Subject: 
Indigenous peoples--Antiquities
Description: 
The Zapotec culture engaged in feasting and gift giving. This simple tripodal bowl probably held pulque, an alcoholic beverage created from fermenting blue agave syrup. The bowl's decoration, an abstract eagle head, represents one of the twenty day signs from their agricultural calendar.
Materials: 
Ceramic: red-orange clay with bichrome slip. Bowl shape with three feet.
Publisher: 
California State University, Los Angeles
Date: 
between 1000 and 1250
Type: 
Artifact
Object Type: 
Vessel
Object Type: 
Bowl
Dimensions: 
4 1/2 in high x 6 1/2 in diameter
Collection: 
MAW Collection
Location: 
Oaxaca, Mexico
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: 
Zapotec
Period: 
Post Classic