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Zapotec

Burial Vessel in the Form of the Rain God Cocijo

Zapotec, 600

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Zapotec

Burial Vessel in the Form of the Rain God Cocijo

Zapotec, 600

Physical Qualities Earthenware, 16 1/4 in. (41.3 cm.) H
Credit Line Gift of Alan Wurtzburger
Object Number 1960.30.26
BMA by gift, 1960; Alan Wurtzburger, Baltimore; Charles Ratton, Paris
Darienne Turner, Baltimore Museum of Art, Ancient Americas Gallery Rotations, December 12, 2021.
The Wurtzburger Collection of Pre-Columbian Art, Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1958, p. 24, no. 26, ill. p. 43.

Inscribed: 2 stickers on the back: "Ratton Paris," which indicates the seller was likely Charles Ratton, and "551" is a sticker that the Wurtzburger family put on themselves. There is also illegible cursive handwriting, likely executed in pencil, on the interior back edge of the bowl the figure is holding.

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