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| Keywords: Zapotec - Vessel of a Bat Foot with Claws - Walters 2006153 - Three Quarter.jpg The bat appears with notable frequency in the art of Monte Albán and other Zapotec cities in the Valley of Oaxaca Mexico Throughout Mesoamerica bats were associated with death and sacrifice In addition to figural funerary urns forms of bat feet such as this example were also prevalent The particularly long claws of this example are most similar to late variants of the form leading to the chronological placement near the end of the Classic period of Zapotec culture between 650 900 Monte Albán IIIB-IV gray earthenware cm 10 48 18 42 accession number 2006 15 3 19727 Norman Lane New Mexico prior to March 2006 Austen-Stokes Ancient Americas Foundation John Stokes as agent March 28 2006 by purchase Arte Primitivo New York as agent Walters Art Museum Gift of the Austen-Stokes Ancient Americas Foundation 2007 place of origin Oaxaca Mexico Walters Art Museum license Zapotec pottery in the Walters Art Museum Zapotec pottery Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Bats in Pre-Columbian art | ||||
