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(8 7/16 x 8 1/8 x 10 9/16 in.)","dimensionsproposed":"","creditline":"Museum purchase, Mary Trumbull Adams Art Fund","markings":null,"inscribed":null,"signed":null,"catalograisonne":null,"creditlinerepro":null,"restrictions":null,"nowebuse":"False","secondaryobjectnumber":null,"campuscollections":"false","on_view":false,"accessionyear":"2013-01-01","newaccession":0,"titles":[{"title":"Great Serpent/Panther vessel","titletype":"Primary Title","displayorder":1}],"makers":[],"depicted":[],"texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"The creature portrayed on this vessel is a combination of a feline and a horned serpent. As attested in the ethnographic record of many southeastern and plains cultures, both a horned serpent and a panther served as symbols of the sacred Beneath World, from which religious practitioners gained visionary insight and power. In some examples of such “cat-serpents,” an additional motif, similar in form to a swastika—and incised atop the head of this ceramic creature—marks a focal conduit through which the powers of the Beneath World can be accessed by humans. This was probably a powerful ritual object, but its precise use remains unclear. ","remarks":null}],"media":[{"id":126171,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/2013-44_RGT","isprimary":1,"rank":1,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"Bruce White Photography"}],"hasimage":"true","bibliography":[{"boilertext":"David H. Dye and Camille Wharey, \"Exhibition Catalogue,\" in <i>The Southeastern Ceremonial Complex: Artifacts and Analysis: The Cottonlandia Conference</i>, ed. Patricia Galloway (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989): 319-382.","citation":"David H. Dye and Camille Wharey, \"Exhibition Catalogue,\" in <i>The Southeastern Ceremonial Complex: Artifacts and Analysis: The Cottonlandia Conference</i>, ed. 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