Clay stamp
Clay stamp which is dipped into paint dye for decorating cloth and the body. Dyes were made from charcoal, cinnabar and other substances. This item was one of the many prominent items commercially traded by the Pochteca traders.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 283/1990/35
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Tools for farm and craft
- Collection Area Region
- CENT
- Material
- terracotta pottery
- Common Name
- clay stamp
- Simple Name
- stamp
- Production Country
- Mexico
- Production Year High
- c.1500
