Armadillo Effigy Jar

Date

650-0 BCE

Creator

Unrecorded Condorhuasi-Alamito artist

Location

Raclin Murphy Museum of Art

Thin walls and vigorously applied exterior incising help to create an animated, bug-eyed peccary head with an upturned snout. Turn the jar upside down and it becomes a classic armadillo with slit eyes and short ears. from O'Grady, Myth & Melancholy: The Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. O'Grady Collection of Southern Cone Art (Notre Dame, 2014)

Creator

Unrecorded Condorhuasi-Alamito artist

Date

650-0 BCE

Classification

Vessels

Medium

Slipped ceramic

Accession number

2004.044.001

Access

Raclin Murphy Museum: 205A

Dimensions

5 3/4 x 5 1/2 x 6 3/4 in. (14.61 x 13.97 x 17.15 cm)

Credit Line

Robert E., ND '63 and Beverly, SMC '63 O'Grady Fund

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