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Image:  3277a

File date:  2001-02-26

Caption:  Vessel with cover

Description:  Maya. burnished clay. Early Classic two part container. (Cookie jar). Sitting crossleg, a monkey or person wearing monkey headdress with crest, wearing fins on shoulders make the palm up gesture. These figures are associated with the watery journey at the beginning of time.



Photograph by Justin Kerr