Plateau with eleven figures
Plateau with eleven figures
Plateau with eleven figures
Plateau with eleven figures
Plateau with eleven figures
Plateau with eleven figures

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Art of the Ancient Americas

Plateau with eleven figures,

200 BCE–100 CE

Ameca-Etzatlán
Late Formative Period
y1984-22
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Five musicians playing transverse flutes or whistles, with a chorus of five women and single drummer

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Collection Publications: Music in the Land of the Jaguar

Information

Title
Plateau with eleven figures
Dates

200 BCE–100 CE

Medium
Ceramic
Dimensions
15.5 × 36.5 × 15 cm (6 1/8 × 14 3/8 × 5 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Gillett G. Griffin
Object Number
y1984-22
Place Made

North America, Mexico, Jalisco, West Mexico

Culture
Jalisco
Period
Late Preclassic
Type
figurines, ceramics
Materials
ceramic
Subject
women, figures (representations), musicians, musical instruments, men

Kammffer (Kamffer?); purchased by Gillett G. Griffin (1928-2016), Princeton, NJ, by June 1971 [1]; gift to the Princeton University Art Museum, 1984. [1] According to dated slides in the Griffin archive.

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