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Travertine Vase in the Guatemala National Museum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Stephen F. de Borhegyi
Stephen F. de Borhegyi*
Affiliation:
Instituto de Antropologia e Historia, Guatemala City
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In the superb Dieseldorff collection, located in the Guatemala National Museum is an effigy vase hitherto unpublished which is thought worthy of description and comment.

This vase, Museum number 5923, represents,a kneeling monkey; most probably a spider monkey (Fig. 81, a, b). The pear-shaped vase represents the body. The head and arm projects in full relief from the wall of the vessel, while the legs and a part of the tail are in somewhat lower relief. The monkey is clasping his long, curled tail by both hands above his head. Part of the rim, the left arm, and part of the tail are broken off (see Fig. 82, a, b.) Minor details such as fingers, eyes, and mouth were made by incising and grooving. The height of the vase is 14 cm. It is of unknown provenience but is thought to have been found near San Pedro Carcha (Alta Verapaz) by the late E. P. Dieseldorff.

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American Antiquity , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , January 1952 , pp. 254 - 256
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1952

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