Art Institute of Chicago
Masked Figurine with Boar Headdress, Possibly an Ocarina (Whistle)
Tairona
- Date
- c. 1300
- Medium
- Ceramic and pigment
- Culture
- Colombia
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
To this day in Tairona communities, masked individuals dance, personifying the deified forces and phenomena of nature. This act associates the annual round of social and economic activities with the natural world’s cycle of death, fertility, and renewal.
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- Object type
- AAT300301253
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