YPM ANT.257223

Dog Effigy Vessel from the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History Anthropology Collection. Catalog Number: YPM ANT.257223 Description: Ceramic four-legged, two-headed dog effigy vessel of red clay with red slip and black painted designs. 6' width, 8 1/2' length, 1 3/8' outer edge diameter of opening. Triangular-shaped heads with pointed ears, and deeply incised eyes and mouths. Figure is hollow with opening in center of back. Materials: Ceramic Function: Art; Containers Culture Group: Latin American : Mesoamerica Locality: North America; Mexico; Nayarit Unit of measurement = millimeters 3D Reconstruction performed using Reality Capture version 1.2. 238 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).