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Basket-Carrier ("Canastero") with incised body ornamentation1000 BCE–100 CE

Not on view
Terracotta sculpture of a seated figure with raised arms and hands touching the head, covered in incised geometric line patterns, with fire-blackened patches
Title
Basket-Carrier ("Canastero") with incised body ornamentation
Culture
Calima Ilama
Place Made
Colombia, Valle del Cauca, Calima
Date Made
1000 BCE–100 CE
Medium
Ceramic
Dimensions
7 7/8 × 4 5/8 in. (20.07 × 11.68 cm)
Credit Line
The Muñoz Kramer Collection, gift of Camilla Chandler Frost and Stephen and Claudia Muñoz-Kramer
Accession Number
M.2007.146.345
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.