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- Title
The Griffin Fragment:A Mixtec Drinking Vessel Portraying the Place Sign for "Hill of the Turkey".
- Authors
Pohl, John M. D.
- Abstract
The article focuses on what the author calls the Griffin Fragment. It was an intriguing piece of a ceramic vessel, which the author found while looking at slides at art historian Gillett Good Griffin's place. It is a Mixtec ceramic. The author says that the Nahua-Mixteca ceramics served three purposes. He tells about the decorations on Mixtec serving ware. The vessel has an image of the bird that possesses a wattle at the neck and a snood at the head like that of the turkey male or gobbler of Meleagris gallopavo. The part of the turkey's body which is missing is a part of a pictographic place sign for a kingdom called "Hill of the Turkey."
- Subjects
ANCIENT vases; MIXTEC pottery; GRIFFIN, Gillett Good; ART historians; ANTIQUES; MIXTEC art
- Publication
Record of the Princeton University Art Museum, 2005, Vol 64, p80
- ISSN
0032-843X
- Publication type
Article