Image: 3277b
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.
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Photograph by Justin Kerr
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