The scene depicts a vision quest rite with six human participants who hold small drinking cups. One of the figures is dancing and smokes a cigarette. The taking of a ritual enema is implied by an enema bag floating between the two main figures and one held by the seated figure who faces the...
Provenance
Collected between 1974 and 1981 by John Fulling, Art Collectors of November, Inc., Florida (and known as the "November Collection"); to Landon T. Clay, Boston, Massachusetts, in 1987; to MFA, December 1988, gift of Landon T. Clay.
Credit Line
Gift of Landon T. Clay
Maya, Late Classic Period, A.D. 650–750
Object Place
Department of El Petén, central Petén lowlands, Guatemala
Catalogue Raisonné
MS1082
Dimensions
10.5 x 14.8 cm (4 1/8 x 5 13/16 in.)
Accession Number
1988.1283
Medium or Technique
Earthenware: red, orange and black on cream slip paint