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Portrait Vessel
Not on view
The man depicted here, nicknamed Black Stripe for his face paint, is known from several portrait vessels. He has been identified as a warrior who was eventually taken captive. Here, he wears tubular ear ornaments and a cloth turban with lozenge-shaped danglers. Portrait vessels such as this example were used before they were placed in tombs, but there is no clear correlation with the buried individuals—portraits of men have been found in the tombs of females.
El hombre retratado aquí, popularmente conocido como "Raya negra" por su rostro pintado, es conocido por haber sido retratado en varias vasijas y ha sido identificado como un guerrero que participó en combates y que tal vez haya sido prisionero de guerra. Lleva orejeras tubulares y un turbante de tela del que están suspendidos colgantes romboidales y con discos. Las vasijas con retratos como este fueron aparentemente utilizadas antes de ser colocadas en las tumbas. Sin embargo, no se puede ver una clara correlación con los individuos enterrados, ya que se han encontrado vasijas con retratos masculinos en tumbas femeninas.
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