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Pre-Columbian Americas Maya culture, Petén (?), Guatemala Vase Late Classic period, ca. A.D. 700–800 Clay, pigment H. 6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm) Raymond and Laura Wielgus Collection Indiana University Art Museum, 80.114 Their presence as tomb offerings is one factor that has led many scholars to believe that the majority of Maya pictorial ceramics depict scenes from the underworld. On this vase, for example, the major figure, who wears a deer headdress, may be the deceased man for whom the vase was made, while the figure behind him is God N, one of the rulers of the underworld. |
