Detail View: MAW Collection:
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Filename:
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MawM0158-000.jp2
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Identifying Number:
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MawM0158
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Title:
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Tripodal rattle bowl with a day sign : eagle head 15th day.
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Subject:
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Ceramic bowls--Mexico--Oaxaca (State)
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Subject:
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Bowls (Tableware)--Mexico--Oaxaca (State)
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Subject:
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Zapotec art--Mexico--Oaxaca (State)
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Subject:
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Indigenous peoples--Antiquities
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Description:
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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.
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Materials:
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Ceramic: red-orange clay with bichrome slip. Bowl shape with three feet.
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Publisher:
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California State University, Los Angeles
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Date:
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between 1000 and 1250
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Type:
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Artifact
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Object Type:
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Vessel
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Object Type:
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Bowl
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Dimensions:
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4 1/2 in high x 6 1/2 in diameter
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Collection:
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MAW Collection
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Location:
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Oaxaca, Mexico
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Rights:
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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).
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Culture:
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Zapotec
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Period:
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Post Classic
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