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Anthropomorphic Figurine
Culture Carchi750 - 1550
Museo Casa del Alabado
Quito, Ecuador
This effigy celebrates the female role in the continuation of life: likewise, shamans contact sipirits in other worlds in order to achieve the same goal.
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Details
- Title: Anthropomorphic Figurine
- Creator: Culture Carchi
- Creator Lifespan: 750 - 1550
- Creator Nationality: Ecuador
- Creator Death Place: Carchi Province. Ecuadorian Northern Highlands
- Creator Birth Place: Carchi Province. Ecuadorian Northern Highlands
- Date: 750 - 1550
- Provenance: Ecuadorian Northern Highlands, Ecuadorian Northern Highlands
- Physical Dimensions: w26.5 x h13.1 cm
- Culture: Carchi
- Type: Pottery
- Rights: Museo Casa del Alabado. Inventoried by National Institute of Cultural Heritage of Ecuador (INPC), Museo Casa del Alabado
- External Link: http://alabado.org/
- Medium: Clay
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