Pre-Columbian designs from Panama
Subtitle: 591 illustrations of Coclé pottery
By: Samuel Kirkland Lothrop.
Contributors: Lothrop, Samuel Kirkland, 1892-1965.
Series: Dover pictorial archive series
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 1976
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 108
Subjects: Indian pottery -- Panama -- Coclé (Province) -- Pictorial works; Indian art -- Panama -- Coclé (Province) -- Pictorial works
Description: The inhabitants of Cocle province on the southern coast of Panama created imaginatively decorative ceremonial bowls, adorned with countless powerful and sophisticated versions of motifs popular among native civilizations. This collection includes 591 of these beautifully stylized images, including gods, men, birds, fish, monkeys, florals, abstracts all in the beautiful Cocle style.
Notes: Selected illustrations from pt. 2 of the author's Coclé, an archaeological study of central Panama.