Burial urns

Figural urns found in chambers inside deep shaft tombs are particularly abundant in northwestern Colombia. The urns contained human bones, redeposited in these special containers after the flesh was removed either through cremation or burial in the ground for a short period of time. The shaft tomb burials were believed to be vital links to the honored dead, and the bones were perceived as seeds from which new life sprang. The practice of redepositing the defleshed skeletal remains inside…

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Black Colombia- Funeral Urn to hold the skeletal remains of their ancestors....

The burial-urn style of the lower Magdalena River region of northern Colombia is renowned for its figural portrayals of a male personage sitting atop a low bench that adorn the urns' lids. Often birds, as totemic or otherwise symbolic icons, embellish the urns' sides. The modeled male figure atop the lid typically is portrayed nude, although occasionally he may be ornamented with a necklace or other body decoration. Here, the pierced earlobes indicate that the figure originally wore some…

Burial Urn. Terracotta. PYU period(2nd century BC-9th century AD). Found at BeikThaNo

Funerary urns like this one in the British Museum inspired Browne’s most expressive writing in Urn Burial

Found in shaft tombs throughout what is now northwestern Colombia, this urn and others like it were used by the Tairona people (who lived in the area that is present-day northern Colombia) to deposit the remains of their ancestors. As a result, the artists who created these large ceramic vessels had to carefully craft them by hand to ensure that the larger remains, such as the bones and skull, would fit through the opening after firing. Precious gold jewelry would also be deposited in such…

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