Polychrome Figural Urn with Jaguars and Skulls
The greatest mystery of life is what happens to us when we leave this world. For the ancient Maya, death was not an ending, but the beginning of a lengthy transformation into an ancestral spirit who mediated between the world of the living, and that of the most important gods....
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William P. Palmer III, Portland, Maine, active between 1958 and 1973 [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Merrin Gallery, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Private collection, May 1988 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 2008, by gift.
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