Anthropomorphous figure – Eastern Cordillera – Muisca Period

Eastern Cordillera – Muisca Period600/1600

该作品的收藏者：

Anthropomorphous motifs are widespread on clay figures from the Cundinamarca and Boyacá high plains. This one depicts a man whose eyes and mouth have been made from double strips in order to create the typical "coffee bean" feature. The chroniclers of the conquest tell how priests used to have pairs of these kinds of figures on their shrines, and some documents say that at least some of them were portraits of the ruling chiefs.

作品介绍

• 标题: Anthropomorphous figure
• 创作者: Eastern Cordillera – Muisca Period
• 日期: 600/1600
• 实际尺寸: w265 x h375 mm
• 类型: Ceramic
• 外部链接: People and Gold in Pre-Hispanic Colombia
• Technique: Modeled in clay and painted
• Finding: Colombia
• Accession number: C12799

该作品收藏于：

Museo del Oro, Bogotá