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Seated drummer

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Description: Seated drummer
TitleSeated drummer
Creator nameUnknown
Creator nationality/cultureColima
Creator rolePotter/Ceramicist
Creation date200 BC–AD 300
Creation date (description)Comala style
Object typeReligious/Ritual/Ceremonial Object
MaterialsEarthenware
DimensionsUnknown
LocationUniversity of Iowa Museum of Art
Accession numberUnknown
SubjectsPottery, AncientMusicians in artMusical instruments, AncientVoyages to the otherworld in artGrave goods
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Shamanic Symbolism, Transformation, and Deities in West Mexican Funerary Art
Peter T. Furst
Description: Ancient West Mexico: Art and Archaeology of the Unknown Past
Ancient West Mexico: Art and Archaeology of the Unknown Past
Ancient West Mexican funerary art has long been famous for its ceramic representations of the natural and social world, but only recently have sacred, symbolic, supernatural, shamanic, and other phenomena outside everyday experience begun to be recognized as important subjects and functions of this art. If the “non-ordinary” is even now not always recognized for what it is, at least a dimension of the spiritual or magical is now acknowledged as a significant component of the ancient mortuary …
Author
Peter T. Furst
PublisherArt Institute of Chicago
Copyright©1998 by The Art Institute of Chicago
Related print edition pages: pp.169-189
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00016.013
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-13532&redirecttoanchor=7146
Chapter subject tags:Art, Ancient AmericanShamanism--MexicoIndians of Mexico--Rites and ceremoniesGrave goodsSymbolism in artSupernatural in artIndian mythology--Mexico

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http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/148347
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