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Ceramics
Ceremonial Human Figure Vessel
Capuli artist, (active )
Capuli artist
Colombia
14 1/2 in. (36.8 cm)
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Ceramic
Ceramic
Capuli Culture Complex; made in Colombia
850-1500 CE
850
1500
ceramics, Pre-Columbian art of Central & South America, vessels
Ceramics
This vessel is in the form of a stylized human holding a bowl, perhaps making a coca offering. Death, marriage, and almost any other social or religious ritual once included an offering of coca. Possessing ceremonial significance, the leaves of the coca plant have also been used in the Andean region for hundreds of years to treat ailments ranging from dysentery to altitude sickness.
There is a small opening in the top of the vessel suggesting it may have been used to hold cremated human remains. The slit eyes may indicate death or a trance state.
[Gallery label text, 2009]
1951.49
item
Memorial Art Gallery
2/3/2001
glossy
8x10
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51.49SL1
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2 x 2
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2 x 2
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51.49DI#2
digital image
6/9/2009
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