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Collections

Coca-Chewing Monkey Vessel700–1150 CE

On view:
Geffen Galleries, Ancestral Ceramics from Panama and Colombia
Ceramic effigy vessel shaped as a four-legged creature with a human face, painted with red geometric triangle patterns on a tan clay body
Title
Coca-Chewing Monkey Vessel
Culture
Nariño or Carchi
Place Made
Colombia, Nariño Highlands, or Ecuador, Carchi
Date Made
700–1150 CE
Style
Tuza
Medium
Slip-painted earthenware
Dimensions
5 5/8 × 8 1/4 × 3 7/8 in. (14.29 × 20.96 × 9.84 cm)
Credit Line
The Muñoz Kramer Collection, gift of Camilla Chandler Frost and Stephen and Claudia Muñoz-Kramer
Accession Number
M.2007.146.123
Classification
Ceramics
Collecting Area
Art of the Ancient Americas
Selected Bibliography
  • Burtenshaw, Julia, Héctor García Botero, Diana Magaloni, and María Alicia Uribe Villegas. The Portable Universe = El Universo en tus Manos: Thought and Splendor of Indigenous Colombia. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2022.