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[AC] Mead Art Museum at Amherst College; [HC] Hampshire College Art Gallery;
[HD] Historic Deerfield; [MH] Mount Holyoke College Art Museum; [MH SK] The Joseph Allen Skinner Museum at Mount Holyoke College; [SC] Smith College Museum of Art; [UM] University Museum of Contemporary Art at UMASS Amherst

Maker(s):	Unknown
Culture:	Chiriquí
Title:	Polychrome jar
Date Made:	800-1500 CE
Type:	Container
Materials:	Earthenware; with polychrome pigments
Place Made:	Central America; Costa Rica or Panama
Measurements:	Overall: 6 1/2 in x 6 1/8 in x 6 1/8 in; 16.5 cm x 15.6 cm x 15.6 cm
Accession Number:	MH 15.F.A
Credit Line:	Gift of Mrs. Mary Hunter Lamson (Class of 1856)

Description:
Flask-shape body container with painting (three vertical bands with geometric designs in dark brown and ocre).
Painted in red, black and tan. Date of Acquisition before 1894.

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