Three Miniature Blood Offering Vessels/Ollas

Object/Artifact

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El Camino College Anthropology Museum

390A

390A

Name/Title

Three Miniature Blood Offering Vessels/Ollas

Entry/Object ID

A-390ABC

Description

390 A: Three lugged olla. Each lug has a hole, and each lug is also projected a ways outward from body and pointed upward like horns. 390 B: Mostly grayish/brown. Four lugged olla; each lug looks worn & does not have holes. Uneven/ lopsided lugs and body. 390 C: Smallest of the 5 ollas. Two lugs, one has a hole, the other does not. Clay used looks orange, has gray/black marks all over/inside body.

Use

Used for small blood sacrifices

Collection

El Camino College Anthropology Museum

Category

Archaeology

Acquisition

Accession

09.03.03A

Notes

09.03.04B, 09.03.05C

Ethnography

Cultural Region

* Untyped Cultural Region

West Coast Mexico

Culture/Tribe

Pre-Columbian Jalisco culture

Notes

Found in the dried lakebed of ancient lake Chapala. Dates to 200-400 AD

Material

Clay

Color

Brown, Gray

Condition

Overall Condition

Good