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Anthropomorphous figure
Mid-Cauca (Quimbaya) - Late Period700/1600
Museo del Oro, Bogotá
Bogota, Colombia
A deliberate renunciation of naturalistic representation, characteristic of the last stages of pre-Hispanic Mid-Cauca (Quimbaya) ceramics, is illustrated in this female figure with trapezoidal head, no mouth and arms just hinted at by elongated lumps placed on the chest.
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Details
- Title: Anthropomorphous figure
- Creator: Mid-Cauca (Quimbaya) - Late Period
- Creator Lifespan: 700/1600
- Creator Nationality: Colombia
- Creator Death Place: Colombia
- Creator Birth Place: Colombia
- Date: 700/1600
- Physical Dimensions: w235 x h360 mm
- Type: Ceramic
- External Link: People and Gold in Pre-Hispanic Colombia
- Technique: Modeling in clay
- Finding: Colombia, Caldas, Salamina
- Accession number: C00540
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