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figurine
Pre-classic female figurine, with head, arms, legs and exaggerated hips. Museum's slip catalogue: 'FIGURINES, human, 16* fragments of, in a whitish pottery. Found by a workman when digging a trench, about six feet from the surface in the Panuco…
Tags: figurine, John mcpherson
figurine
Seated figurine; grey pottery. From Isthmus of Tehuantepec, State of Oaxaca. Clay figurines appear in the graves and household debris of the earliest farmers in Mexico and continued to be made and used by successive civilisations until the Spanish…
Tags: Isthmus, John mcpherson, oaxaca, pottery, Tehuantepec
figurine
Post-classic pottery statuette, Toltec period, with very ornate headdress. Clay figurines appear in the graves and household debris of the earliest farmers in Mexico and continued to be made and used by successive civilisations until the Spanish…
Tags: figurine, John mcpherson, statuette
figurine fragment
Fragment of statuette; pre-classic. Clay figurines appear in the graves and household debris of the earliest farmers in Mexico and continued to be made and used by successive civilisations until the Spanish Conquest. Those made by the village…
Tags: figurine, John mcpherson, mexico, neolithic
figurine fragment
Fragment of a statuette; head with 'hat'; pre-classic. Valley of Mexico, 2000 B.C.-A.D.500 Clay figurines appear in the graves and household debris of the earliest farmers in Mexico and continued to be made and used by successive civilisations until…
Tags: figurine, John mcpherson, statuette
figurine fragment
Head, fragment of statuette; Mongolian type; pre-classic. Clay figurines appear in the graves and household debris of the earliest farmers in Mexico and continued to be made and used by successive civilisations until the Spanish Conquest. Those made…
Tags: head, John mcpherson, Mongolian, statuette
figurine fragment
Fragment of a statuette, white clay, elaborate headdress, pre-classic. Clay figurines appear in the graves and household debris of the earliest farmers in Mexico and continued to be made and used by successive civilisations until the Spanish…
Tags: Aztec, figurine, John mcpherson
jar pot cup
Small vessel/cup in the shape of a frog (possibly a toy?), grey clay. One of four vessels in McPherson's collection (a9A-D) in the shape of animals (duck, frog, large dog, small dog).
Tags: cup, jar, John mcpherson, pot
jar pot cup
Small vessel/cup in the shape of a duck (possibly a toy?), grey pottery. One of four vessels in McPherson's collection (a9A-D) in the shape of animals (duck, frog, large dog, small dog).
Tags: cup, jar, John mcpherson, pot