Description (Physical description)
Description for 1890.57 [A-K]: 'Two highly ornamented burial urns, one large and plain and portions of others. Also a pottery head and a pubic shield.'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Field collection)
Excavated by Dr Neville Goodman in 1880.
Event Date 1880
Author: maa

Context (Found together / assemblage)
This object is referenced in Goodman's 1881 publication, p.415 and claims: 'A rude conventionalized representation of a clothed human head (B') [1890.57 I], which I conjecture was the knob or handle of the cover of the vessel [1890.57 A], was found in it. This knob or head is almost precisely similar to one in the British Museum which was brought from Parà.'
Event Date 1880
Author: Elia Quijano Quinones

Context (References)
Goodman, N. (1881). 'On some Burial Urns found near the mouth of the Amazon River'. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, Vol 4(4), pp. 411-422. Fig. 4
Event Date 1881
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Accession Register for 1890.57 [A-K]: 'Two high ornamented burial urns, one large plain urn, and portions of others.'
Event Date 1890
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Sherd, ceramic head. Hollow, bichrome red ware; burnished with remains of a clear colour slip around the forehead and a general darkened surface colour from sooting. Stylised human facial features with a protuberant nose connected to a unibrow. Forehead framed by raised lineal decoration that continuos on the back of the head forming an almost inverted triangle. The top of the head depicts what could be a headdress consisting of three knobs incised on the middle.
Event Date 5/12/2024
Author: maa