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Acrobat, 1200-600 BC
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Title: Acrobat, 1200-600 BC
Caption: The "Acrobat" an earthen vessel with Olmec-style facial features, depicting a contortionist resting on his elbows, chest lifted, feet over head and hands under chin. An opening visible in the left leg suggest the hollow sculpture served as an offering vessel. Some have theorized the vessel may relate to the positions assumed by shamans after the ingestion of mushrooms to obtain a state of ritual trance. Between 1962 and 1967 the anthropologist Arturo Romano Pacheco conducted four seasons of excavation at the Tlatilco, State of Mexico. No photographer credited, artifact dated 1200-600 BC.
Category: Historical & Fine Arts • Performing & Fine Arts
Credit: Album / NYPL/Science Source
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Image size: 3036 × 4500 px | 39.1 MB
Print size: 25.7 × 38.1 cm | 1195.3 × 1771.7 in (300 dpi)
Keywords: 12TH CENTURY BC • 12TH CENTURY BCE • ACROBAT • ACROBATICS • ANCIENT CIVILIZATION • ANCIENT CULTURE • ANCIENT • ANTIQUITY • ARCHAEOLOGICAL • ARCHAEOLOGY • ARCHEOLOGICAL • ARCHEOLOGY • ART • ARTIFACT • ARTWORK • CLAY • CONTORTIONIST • EARTHENWARE • HISTORIC • HISTORICAL & FINE ARTS • HISTORICAL • HISTORY • MESOAMERICA • MESOAMERICAN • MEXICAN • MEXICO • OLMEC CIVILIZATION • OLMEC-STYLE • PERFORMING & FINE ARTS • POTTERY • PRE-COLUMBIAN • SCIENCE • SCULPTURE • TLATILCO • VESSEL
