Burial Urn

AD 1000-1600

32.9 cm 74.4 cm 26 cm

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The burial-urn style of the lower Magdalena River region of northern Colombia is renowned for its figural portrayals of a male personage sitting atop a low bench that adorn the urns' lids. Often birds, as totemic or otherwise symbolic icons, embellish the urns' sides. The mode...

Artifact

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80370
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Ron Messick Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; John G. Bourne, February 5, 1998, by purchase.
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en
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