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Friday, February 18, 2011

Blackware pottery, 1200 BC


Olmec culture, Las Bocas, Puebla, Mexico, ca. 1200-900 B.C. Blackware pottery vessel of simple form with stylized symbolic quadripartite designs separated by bisected panels, red pigment highlights Olmec art was created to give power to the shaman and the shaman/ruler. Ceramics, for example, were fashioned of clay, which was coaxed into meaningful forms which would become the property and the containers of sacred substances of the important shamans.

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