Ulúa-Style Marble Vase Project: Dissemination of Results

Group 1:  Bird and Serpent Handles

Group 1 vessels have either dual or single bird or, more rarely, serpent lug handles. In all but one example, scale borders frame the central program. Profile heads are far more common than frontal heads on tripod forms. Frontal heads flanked by profile heads are more commonly found on cylindrical vases with ring supports. Vessel supports include tripod and ring supports, save the one-handle drum forms lacking supports. Vessels with tripod supports, usually drum forms, are more common than cylinders with ring supports.

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Group 1:  Bird and Serpent Handles
	Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz Ethnologishes Museum IV ca 23587   Region: Ulúa Valley Site: Travesía Ref: Luke Vase 3
Sub-Group 1A:  Tripod vases with two bird handles
	Courtesy of the Middle American Research Institute Tulane University H.1.3 35.6539   Region: Ulúa Valley Site: Peor es Nada Ref: Luke Vase 7
	Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz Ethnologishes Museum VI ca 21067   Region: Ulúa Valley Site: Travesía Ref: Luke Vase 11
Sub-Group 1B:  Ring support vases with two bird handles
	Carved Vase with Eagle Handles, ca. 650-700 H: 3-15/16 inches  W: 4-3/4 inches Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 78.518   Region: Ulúa Valley Ref: Luke Vase 14
	Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts 96-35-20/C1161   Region: Ulúa Valley Site: Lagartijo Ref: Luke Vase 15 See Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology website: www.peabody.harvard.edu/col/Image
	Courtesy of Museum of the American Indian Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. 6.1262   Region: Ulúa Valley Ref: Luke Vase 17
	Courtesy of the Popol Vuh Museum Guatemala City, Guatemala 0690   Region: Motagua Valley Ref: Luke Vase 18

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