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A work made of ceramic and pigment.

Masked Figurine with Boar Headdress, Possibly an Ocarina (Whistle)

c. 1300

Tairona Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia

Colombia

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.

Ceramic and pigment

Arts of the Americas

Latin American