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This volume brings a fresh perspective to the multicolored Cocl? ceramic wares excavated at Sitio Conte in central Panama during the 1930s. The Cocl? 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. Cocl? 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 Cocl? 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.
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Creations of the Rainbow Serpent : Polychrome Ceramic Designs From Ancient Panama
author
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Helms, Mary W.
publisher
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University of New Mexico
isbn10 | asin
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0826315887
print isbn13
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9780826315885
ebook isbn13
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9780585182490
language
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English
subject
Conte Site (Panama) , Indian pottery--Panama--Cocl (Province)--Themes, motives, Indian pottery--Panama--Cocl (Province)--Classification, Animals in art, Indians of Central America--Panama--Cocl (Province)--Antiquities, Cocl (Panama : Province)--An
publication date
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1995
lcc
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F1565.1.C6H45 1995eb
ddc
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972.8/721
subject
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Conte Site (Panama) , Indian pottery--Panama--Cocl (Province)--Themes, motives, Indian pottery--Panama--Cocl (Province)--Classification, Animals in art, Indians of Central America--Panama--Cocl (Province)--Antiquities, Cocl (Panama : Province)--An
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Creations of the Rainbow Serpent
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Creations of the Rainbow Serpent
Polychrome Ceramic Designs from Ancient Panama
Mary W. Helms
University of New Mexico Press Albuquerque
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1995 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS All rights reserved. First Edition
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Helms, Mary W. Creations of the rainbow serpent: polychrome ceramic designs from ancient Panama/ Mary W. Helms.1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8263-1588-7 (cl) 1. Conte Site (Panama) 2. Indian potteryPanamaCocl (Province) Themes, motives. 3. Indian potteryPanamaCocl (Province) Classification. 4. Animals in art. 5. Indians of Central AmericaPanama Cocl (Province)Antiquities. 6. Cocl (Panama:Province)Antiquities. I. Title. F1565.1.C6H45 1995 972.8'721dc20 95-3305 CIP
The following figures have been reproduced courtesy of Dover Publications, Inc.: Figs. 3-6; 9-26a; 27-28a; 31; 33-34a; 35-36; 38-44; 46-47; 49-52; 54-70; 73-78; 82-84, 87-91a; 92a; 93a; 96-97; 99-100.
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Contents
Preface
vii
Introduction
3
1 Chromatics
9
2 The Serpent
15
3 Birds and Fowl
39
4 Mammals
53
5 The Tree of Life and its Products
73
6 Body Parts and Processes
83
7 Whole-Plate Designs
91
Concluding Remarks
103
Notes
111
References
119
Index
133
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"... FOR RELIGIOUS MAN NATURE IS NEVER ONLY NATURAL."
MIRCEA ELIADE. The Sacred and the Profane. 1959:151.
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Preface
In the Preface and Introduction to his report on the Sitio Conte in central Panama, Samuel Lothrop describes the difficulties that had to be overcome in order to present the lavishly illustrated and textually detailed account of ceramic materials associated with this site (Lothrop 1942). These included sheer quantity of material, its poor state of preservation, its "innate complexity" and the "archaeologically abnormal conditions" under which it was found. Ceramic material was found in refuse, in caches, and as funeral furniture in graves. The quantities of sherds found as refuse had been greatly disturbed by the digging of grave shafts and/or perhaps by floods, and were of limited use. Cache and grave ceramics also posed problems, as Lothrop explains:
The amount of pottery deposited in individual graves varied greatly.... We cannot give exact figures because the inhabitants of the Sitio Conte had (for the purposes of this study) several very unfortunate customs. One of these was the frequent "killing" of pottery vessels intended to accompany the souls of the dead, which was accomplished by trampling. The result of this was to reduce complete vessels to a compacted and intermingled mass of sherds.... To make matters worse, these ceramic layers, which often were several inches in thickness when vessels had been piled one over the other, frequently were dug up and scattered when later burials were introduced.... [1942:3-5]
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