Image: 6051
File date: 2003-12-28
Caption: Twerto Vase
Description: Maya. clay. height 14.0 cm. Orange ware vessel with a depiction of a form generally called twerto meaning one eye. Cutting a facial nerve causes the eye to fall out and the mouth to curve. In this case the missing eye is highlighted with the incised star around it.
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Photograph by Justin Kerr
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