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Incense burner with feline head

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Ceramic slip, Tiwanaku
Rights: Public Domain
The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection Gift of Nelson A. Rockefeller 1969
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Title: Incense burner with feline head
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Ceramic slip, Tiwanaku.

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