Creations of the Rainbow Serpent: Polychrome Ceramic Designs from Ancient Panama by Helms, Mary - 1995

University of New Mexico Press, 1995. Hard cover. Very good/Very good. Jacket edges are lightly worn. Cover is in great condition. Binding is tight. Inside is clean and unmarked.

viii+136 pages with plates, figures and index. Quarto (10 1/4" x 8 /4") issued in reddish brown cloth with red lettering to spine.

This volume explores the multicolored Cole ceramic wares excavated at the Sitio Conte in central Panama during the 1930s. The Coclé culture was a hierarchical and centralized society that flourished about a thousand years ago. Many of the ceramic wares were unearthed in caches and burials of elite figures. Coclé artists decorated their polychromes with a combination of geometrical forms and lively, graphic depiction of curious birds and beasts. The author sees in these polychromes a semiotic code expressing sociological and cosmological concepts of the Coclé Culture.

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Jacket extremities lightly rubbed, some closed edge tears else a near fine copy in a very good to fine jacket.

Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1995. 1st. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. VERY GOOD/VERY GOOD. Nearly As New but for slight lean to spine, heel lightly rubbed. Jacket edgeworn, lightly bumped at head and heel of spine and folds. 136 pp., eight pp. of color plates, 100 figs. [deV] Size: 4to

University of New Mexico Press. Very Good. 0826315887. 1995, bright clean copym with dustjacket, no markings, Professional booksellers since 1981 . 1995. Hardcover.