Pre-Columbian Clay Bowl with Skull-and-Crossbones-Like Paint Remnants vintage hand-drawn postcard offer welcome

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and with backs facing and arms overlapping

8 1/8" tall x 1 3/4" widest diameter

but with the invention of both rubber gloves and rubber condoms following on the heels of Charles Goodyear's invention of vulcanized rubber in America 1839 (patented in 1844)

And what a face

Pre-Columbian Clay Bowl with Skull-and-Crossbones-Like Paint Remnants vintage hand-drawn postcard offer welcomeI'm not knowledgable enough about pre Columbian pottery to identify where this bowl came from, but it was identified to me as Central American. I immediately fell in love with the remnants of painted decoration on it, which, as positioned in my first photo, suggests an excellent skull and crossbones sort of mask at center. (Or perhaps a cat with a very pointy chin!) And then a triangle pointing to the rim, with what looks a bit like a figure in