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Filename: 
MawM0260-000.jp2
Identifying Number: 
MawM0260
Title: 
Seated male musician playing a musical rasp.
Subject: 
Ceramic sculpture--Mexico--Nayarit
Subject: 
Art--Mexico--Nayarit
Subject: 
Indigenous peoples--Antiquities
Description: 
An elaborately dressed and painted musician sits cross-legged holding an object in his left hand. The knotted rasp creates sounds when an object is dragged across the notches. The top or head of the rasp has been personified with two anthropomorphic heads.
Materials: 
Ceramic: red-brown clay with red-brown and white pigments.
Publisher: 
California State University, Los Angeles
Date: 
between 300 B.C. and 300 A.D.
Type: 
Artifact
Object Type: 
Sculpture
Dimensions: 
6 1/16 in high x 4 3/4 in wide x 2 9/16 in deep
Collection: 
MAW Collection
Location: 
Nayarit, Mexico
Rights: 
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Culture: 
Shaft Tomb
Period: 
Protoclassic