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Burial Urn with Male Effigy Figure

Brooklyn Museum

49.191.2a

Nude male figure with left hand resting on left knee (the right hand is missing) seated on top of the half-domed lid (b) of a cylindrical funerary urn (a). 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.

  • Credit Line

    Frank L. Babbott Fund

  • Type of Item figure, effigy, burial, urn
  • Culture Moskito
  • Material ceramic, pigment, slip
  • Creation Date between 1000 and 1500
  • Classification Ceramic

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