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Pictured is a Polychromed ceramic Rain God Vessel on display in the Kimbell Museum of Art in Fort Worth, Texas. It is from Mexico, Colima, El Chanal, Mixtec style in the Postclassic period from 900 through 1521. This spouted vessel is a combination of a crouching shaman warrior and the rain god, worshipped throughout Mesoamerica from Omec times onward. This piece is thought to have been created circa 1100 through 1140.