Pot Item Number: 3555/1 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Round, handmade, clay pot with an oblong hole (4.5 cm le) just below the shoulder, on one side. The pot is mostly cream-coloured on the outside and part of the inside, with red-brown specks and a large black firing spot at the base. The inside is partly cream-coloured and partly reddish brown. The rim has been broken and repaired (approx. 1/3) with holes remaining at the lower neck under the repair.
Possibly a Mesoamerican funerary vessel; the hole in the side may have been a "kill hole", purposely added to the pot in order to release the spirit of the vessel.
From the donor's mother's estate. An old tape label adhered to the outside surface says: "ME-185 Nayarit Mex - 1965". Possibly collected in Nayarit in 1965?