Bowl
Artist:
Unknown
Place made:Guanajuato, Mexico
General region:North and Central America
Culture: Chupicuaro
Period: Pre-Columbian
Date: ca. 500-100 B.C.
Medium: Earthenware
Dimensions:
height: 2 in. (5.1 cm)
diameter: 9 in. (22.9 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, The Estate of Francis Lieck
Object number: 90.15.4
Provenance: with Mrs. Frances C. Lieck (1905-1989), San Antonio, TX, by 1989; by donation from the estate of Frances C. Lieck to the San Antonio Museum Association, 1990; by transfer to the San Antonio Museum of Art, 1994
Label Text
The seven-lobed abstract shape in the center of this earthenware bowl may symbolize a cave. Caves represent entrances to the Underworld, where people travel to after death. They are also places of creation as told in Mexica stories, one of which references a cave with seven chambers. The shared association of caves with life and death would have created links among the people of West Mexico and beyond. (Bernadette Cap, 2022)
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