Seated Man Stirrup Vessel

AD 50-800 (Early Intermediate-Middle Horizon)

18.1 cm 19.7 cm 15.6 cm

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This vessel shows a seated man, with facial decoration and fangs. A similarly fanged individual seems to be a representation of a supernatural known as the Staff Deity, or a shaman interpreting his role in rituals of agricultural fertility. The “stirrup spout” was one of the...

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79385
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Economos Works of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Private collection, 1992, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 2009, by gift.
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en
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3
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