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Creations of the Rainbow Serpent: Polychrome Ceramic Designs from Ancient Panama

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Creations of the Rainbow Serpent: Polychrome Ceramic Designs from Ancient Panama
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This volume brings a fresh perspective to the multicolored CoclÃ© ceramic wares excavated at Sitio Conte in central Panama during the 1930s. The CoclÃ© culture was a hierarchical and centralized society that flourished about a thousand years ago. Many of these ceramic wares were unearthed in caches and burials of elite figures. CoclÃ© artists decorated their ceramics with a combination of geometrical forms and lively, graphic depictions of curious birds and beasts. Helms sees in these polychromes a semiotic code expressing sociological and cosmological concepts of the CoclÃ© culture. Individual chapters explore chromatics, serpents, mammals, birds and fowl, body parts and processes, the tree of life, and other themes. This volume is handsomely illustrated with black-and-white and color plates and dozens of line drawings.
Country USA
Brand University of New Mexico Press
Manufacturer Univ of New Mexico Pr
Binding Hardcover
EANs 9780826315885
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

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