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| Keywords: Tairona - Small Footed Bowl with Tiger Head Handles - Walters 482783 - Profile.jpg This miniature vessel consists of a small chamber atop four peg feet Knobs on opposite sides are zoomorphic heads likely either feline or saurian The incised ornamentation of the vessel body consists of a percentage-sign-like motif framed by fine impressed chevron banding motifs also seen in Tairona gold work This decorative pattern paired with heads facing opposite directions is a fairly common motif in late Tairona art It has been interpreted as a canoe reflecting the importance of maritime trade among the Caribbean islands and potentially symbolizing a comparable 'mobility' through supernatural realms As such it is likely this small vessel was used to hold a hallucinogenic substance likely in a powdered form between 1000 1500 Pre-Colombian earthenware cm 5 08 10 16 accession number 48 2783 76593 Stiftung Für Altamerikanischen Kulturen Zürich Switzerland prior to 1979 deaccessioned in 1992 when the private museum was permanently closed Leonard Kalina Fine Arts Los Angeles CA prior to May 24 2005 Austen-Stokes Ancient Americas Foundation John Stokes as agent May 24 2005 by purchase Walters Art Museum Gift of the Austen-Stokes Ancient Americas Foundation 2007 place of origin northeast Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia Walters Art Museum license Pre-Columbian art in the Walters Art Museum Tayrona pottery Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
