Asset Overview
Incense Burner from the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History Anthropology Collection.
Catalog Number: YPM ANT.227624.002
Description: Incense burner, tripod with modelled eyes and mouth on each leg, parrots?, Site info on leg read El Chao C-13 .0.25-0.50. illustrated in YUPA, #71, Plate 8, B [Venezuela]. Mirinday period.
Materials: Ceramic
Function: Containers (sherds)
Culture Group: Latin American : Northern Andes/Lower Central America
Locality: South America; Venezuela; Trujillo State; Carache area, Mirinday site
Unit of measurement = millimeters
3D Reconstruction performed using Reality Capture version 1.2.
225 images captured by the Computer Operated Photogrammetric Imaging System (COPIS), a project to design and prototype a modular, multi-view imaging system for museum collections. http://copis3d.org/
This work has been made possible in part by support from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the Human Endeavor (award no. HAA-266508-19).