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Funerary chair
Mid-Magdalena Valley (Tolima) - Middle Period-1/700
Museo del Oro, Bogotá
Bogota, Colombia
Used for the burial of a corpse, probably that of a chieftain or a shaman, funerary chairs of the Middle Magdalena region bear a diversity of symbolic elements like the incised human figure on its back and the serpents on each side.
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Details
- Title: Funerary chair
- Creator: Mid-Magdalena Valley (Tolima) - Middle Period
- Creator Lifespan: -1/700
- Creator Nationality: Colombia
- Creator Death Place: Colombia
- Creator Birth Place: Colombia
- Date: -1/700
- Physical Dimensions: w195 x h371 x d300 mm
- Type: Ceramic
- External Link: People and Gold in Pre-Hispanic Colombia
- Technique: Modeled in clay and painted
- Finding: Colombia, Tolima, Guamo
- Accession number: C00849
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