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Portfolio Category: Pot

Ceramic pot with bilateral anthropomorphic handles

Ceramic pot with bilateral anthropomorphic handles
This vessels were manufactured to contain meals. Meals were cooked with meat, corn, tuber etc.. The meals were a mixture of various ingredients and prepared like a soup. Manioc was the principal ingredient. The shortcoming of manioc is its low protein content so other sources of protein had been added to the garden as protein…
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Double bodied pot with incised decoration

Double bodied pot with incised decoration
Double bodied pot with incised decoration and lateral handles with anthropomorphic representation half bat half human from Chicoide style. The bat is a common motif in Taino representational art. These bat – head adornos were affixed to the sides of pots where they communicated the Taino worldview while serving as handles. The importance of bats…
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