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Marajó jar
Gift of the Mattatuck Historical Society0400/1300
Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian
Washington, DC, and New York, NY, United States
The earliest-known ceramics from the Amazon basin are from Brazil’s Marajó Island. Located at the mouth of the Amazon River, the island was inhabited as early as 1400 BC, and is notable for its distinctively incised and painted pottery, as well as for platform mounds—evidence of highly ranked, chiefly societies found nowhere else in the Amazon.
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- Title: Marajó jar
- Creator: Gift of the Mattatuck Historical Society
- Date Created: 0400/1300
- Location: Island of Marajó, Brazil
- Physical Dimensions: 16 x 19 cm
- Medium: Clay, slip
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