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Collections

Seated Coquero (coca-chewing man)600–1100 CE

On view:
Geffen Galleries, Pacific Connections in the Ancient Americas
Small terracotta sculpture of a seated human figure holding a grid-patterned object across the chest, seated on a bench with a flat rectangular base
Terracotta figural vessel depicting a standing human figure with arms at hips, wearing a diagonal sash with incised crosshatch patterns; hollow rounded head with open top; warm reddish-brown clay with dark painted details, on a rectangular base.
Title
Seated Coquero (coca-chewing man)
Culture
Nariño or Carchi
Place Made
Colombia, Nariño Highlands
Date Made
600–1100 CE
Style
Capuli
Medium
Earthenware with resist-painted slip
Dimensions
6 1/2 × 4 3/4 in. (16.51 × 12.07 cm)
Credit Line
The Muñoz Kramer Collection, gift of Camilla Chandler Frost and Stephen and Claudia Muñoz-Kramer
Accession Number
M.2007.146.101
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.