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Anthropomorphic figurine
Culture Jama Coaque-500 - 1530
Museo Casa del Alabado
Quito, Ecuador
A great lord, costumed to show his status and power, may represent a solar deity. Such figures expressed elite power, so indispensable to the community.
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Details
- Title: Anthropomorphic figurine
- Creator: Culture Jama Coaque
- Creator Lifespan: -500 - 1530
- Creator Nationality: Ecuor
- Creator Death Place: Ecuor
- Creator Birth Place: Ecuor
- Date: -500 - 1530
- Provenance: Ecuorian nord coast: Province: Manabí, Ecuorian nord coast: Province: Manabí
- Physical Dimensions: w35.9 x h71 cm
- Culture: Jama Coaque
- Type: Pottery
- Rights: Museo Casa del Alabo. Inventoried by National Institute of Cultural Heritage of Ecuor (INPC), Museo Casa del Alabado
- External Link: http://alabo.org/
- Medium: Clay
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