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Comala style, polished red olla depicting a bowl or basket of zapotes
Mesoamerican; West Mexican
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Comala style bottle depicting a bowl or basket of small squashes / Mesoamerican; West Mexican

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Funerary sculpture. Comala style. Multiple “squashes” around perimeter. Large flange.

Comala style indicates the predominant style of ceramics associated with the workshops of the Comala, region of Colima, Mexico.

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Title(s): 
Comala style bottle depicting a bowl or basket of small squashes
Culture: 
Mesoamerican; West Mexican
Date: 
300 BCE - 200 CE
Period: 
Late Preclassic
Place: 
Colima, México
Materials/Techniques: 
clay, burnished red slip
Classification: 
Archaeological Objects
Object Type: 
Bottle
Accession No: 
54.2094
Department: 
Anthropology
Collection: 
Kravis Discovery Center
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