Earthenware Vase.
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1904
name: label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: Fully decorated anthropo-zoomorphic vessel. One handle is a face with nostrils in the shape of a double tube cohoba inhaler. The other handles are triangular bent legs with a fertilized uterus phosphene in the middle (at the shoulder of the vessel). The back of the head depicts crossroads. This object comes from the Aguas Buenas cave in Puerto Rico. This was a place a worship for the inhabitants of the Caguitas CS-2 site, part of which is located in the William Miranda Marin Botanical Garden.
label: Notes
content: Anthropomorphic ceramic vessel featuring zemi imagery.
label: Notes
content: There is also one cast/reconstruction of this vessel. Cast with this number is not the same bowl.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Apr 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Puerto Rico, United States, Caribbean
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Classic Taino
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 042916
label: USNM Number
content: A231394-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Vessel / Cast