Effigy Vessel of a Human-Animal Transformation Figure

AD 1000-1350 (late Period VI)

24.1 cm 30.5 cm 24.4 cm

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This Pataky polychrome ceramic vessel portrays a seated human, perhaps a shaman, transformed into their jaguar spirit companion form.

Sculpture

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Ron Messick Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; John G. Bourne, 1990s, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 2009, by gift.
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en
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4
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Pataky
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