Turkey Vessel 7th-10th century Veracruz This vessel portrays a male turkey in a vigorous poseit is displaying to attract a female turkey’s attention and intimidate rivals. The bird’s head, wings, feet, and “beard”a tuft of modified feathers at the chestare sculpted onto its rotund body which forms the chamber of the vessel. The artist emphasizes realistic features of a male turkey courting a female for mating, such as an elongated snood (fleshy protuberance that dangles from the top of the beak) and an engorged wattle (flap along the neck). Coppery-red slip draws attention to its facial features as well as the wings, which are lowered as they would be in a strutting male. Blue slip, now degraded, once brightened the turkey’s neck: typical coloration for an excited male. The artist also burnished some of the pale orange clay to a high polish, perhaps to evoke the heightened iridescence of a male turkey’s plumage. This kind of container is a “bridge-spout vessel.” It has two openings:

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Turkey Vessel 7th-10th century Veracruz This vessel portrays a male turkey in a vigorous poseit is displaying to attract a female turkey’s attention and intimidate rivals. The bird’s head, wings, feet, and “beard”a tuft of modified feathers at the chestare sculpted onto its rotund body which forms the chamber of the vessel. The artist emphasizes realistic features of a male turkey courting a female for mating, such as an elongated snood (fleshy protuberance that dangles from the top of the beak) and an engorged wattle (flap along the neck). Coppery-red slip draws attention to its facial features as well as the wings, which are lowered as they would be in a strutting male. Blue slip, now degraded, once brightened the turkey’s neck: typical coloration for an excited male. The artist also burnished some of the pale orange clay to a high polish, perhaps to evoke the heightened iridescence of a male turkey’s plumage. This kind of container is a “bridge-spout vessel.” It has two openings:

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