Warrior with Vessel on Back

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Warrior with Vessel on Back

Culture: Zapotec

Period: Pre-Columbian

Date: ca. 200

Place made:Oaxaca, Mexico

General region:North and Central America

Medium: Burnished earthenware

Dimensions:

h. 8 in. (20.3 cm); w. 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm); d. 7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm)

Credit Line: Bequest of Elizabeth Huth Coates

Object number: 97.1.15

Provenance: with Elizabeth Huth Coates (nee Maddux) (1909-1996), San Antonio, TX, before 1997; by bequest of the Elizabeth Huth Coates estate to the San Antonio Museum of Art, 1997

Label Text

From pre-classic times forward, a special class of merchants, known as "pochteca" among the Aztec, carried luxury goods all over Mesoamerica. During the post-classic period, they usually painted themselves black and wore special hair arrangements. This seated male, burnished black with a basket on his back, may well represent a member of that merchant class. Notice the objects of personal adornment. (Marion Oettinger, 1998)

Not on view

In Collection(s)

Art of the Americas pre-1500

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Warrior with Vessel on Back

Warrior with Vessel on Back