Images(2)

Balam

Maker Jose Ortiz Bracamonte

Date1995

MediumClay, pigment

Dimensions7” H x 12 1/2” W

SignedBottom: “J. Ortiz B 95”

Credit LineGift of Carolynne Whitefeather

Object numberNLA2011.86.WHI

DescriptionWide vessel with black mouth and base and blue-gray shoulder speckled with red, green and black. Two identical images of a white and black linear design upon which a thin orange jaguar is drawn. Seven red dots appear above each jaguar, and three groups of thin lines are attached to its body. Two elongated vertical openings separate the jaguar images.

ClassificationsTextiles

Collections

Longyear Museum of Anthropology Collections

Exhibitions

Makers and Materials of the Americas

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