Large Incesario

Object/Artifact

El Camino College Anthropology Museum

Name/Title

Large Incesario

Entry/Object ID

A-138

Description

Fraudulent reproducing of an effigy vessel from Tikal burial. Clay figure holding skull to mouth and sitting on three-legged stool. Buff and red slip. Small white dots scattered around. Possible represents Itzamna.

Acquisition

Accession

76.1.2

Notes

Gift: 11/17/1976

Ethnography

Cultural Region

* Untyped Cultural Region

Nicaragua

Culture/Tribe

Mayan

Dimensions

Height

44.5 cm

Width

32 cm

Length

16-1/2 in

Condition

Notes

Human head on left shoulder appears to have been broken off and reattached. Rear leg of tripod base also appears to have been broken and repaired. A vertical crack extends from behind the right ear down to the right hip which appears to have been glued. Cracks radiate from the mouth and horizontal cracks are at the right side of the neck and right eye socket. Another crack is at the top of the head.