Pre-Columbian Calima Malagana Monkey Painted Vessel
Pre-Columbian Calima Malagana Monkey Painted Vessel
Pre-Columbian Calima Malagana Monkey Painted Vessel
Pre-Columbian Calima Malagana Monkey Painted Vessel
Pre-Columbian Calima Malagana Monkey Painted Vessel
Pre-Columbian Calima Malagana Monkey Painted Vessel

Pre-Columbian Calima Malagana Monkey Painted Vessel

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Pre-Columbian Calima Monkey Painted Vessel from Colombia, Middle Cauca complex, ca. 1000-1500 CE. Beautiful red orange & cream painted double vessel with spout and bridge handle which may depict a monkey transforming into human or vice-versa. A superb example! Restored spout.

8" in length

See Calima and Malagana, Art & Archaeology in Southwestern Colombia, page 125 for a similar example. Also, Colombia before Columbus, The People Culture, and Ceramic Art of Prehispanic Colombia, page 91, fig. 72 for a similar example.

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