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Burial Urn with Male Effigy Figure

Culture: Moskito style
Medium: Ceramic, pigment, slip
Place Made: Lower Magdalena River Region, Colombia
Dates: 1000-1500 C.E.
Dimensions: A: 15 3/8 x 7 3/8 in. (39 x 18.7 cm) B: 17 3/16 x 7 1/2 in. (43.7 x 19.1 cm)
Collections: Arts of the Americas
Museum Location: This item is on view in Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor
Accession Number: 49.191.2a-b
Credit Line: Frank L. Babbott Fund
Image: Overall, 49.191.2a-b_acetate_bw.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph

Catalogue Description: Nude male figure with left hand resting on left knee (the right hand is missing) seated on top of the half-domed lid of a cylindrical funerary urn. The figure is wearing ear ornaments. Cylindrical burial urns with rounded bases and an effigy figurethe bones of a secondary burial were found in a mound-covered stone tomb in an ancient cemetery near Ocuña, in the Magdalena Valley of Colombia.

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