Vessel with the emblem of the crocodile-god

Photograph of a vessel published in Franco Monti’s volume Terrecotte precolombiane, Fratelli Fabbri Editori, Milan 1966, p. 107. The photograph is accompanied by the brief caption: “Vessel with the emblem of the crocodile-god. Province of Veraguas, Panama. New York, Museum of American Indian” and by a more extended description: “Vessel with the emblem of the crocodile-god. H. 22.8 cm. Province of Veraguas, Panama. New York, Museum of American Indian. The large belly of this vessel is optically expanded by the fantastic apparition standing out in red and black against the buckskin-colored background. The exceptional graphic solution, of surprising modernity, has concisely managed to render and dramatically enhance the concept of power and dark menace associated with the deity.”