Effigy Vessel
Object Number:
26921
Current Location:
Collections storage
Provenience:
Peru
Pachacamac
Gravefield III
Culture Area:
Andean
Section:
American
Materials:
Ceramic
Clay
Pigment
Technique:
Painted
Iconography:
Cat
Description:
In the shape of a cat, standing. Short wide vessel neck on cat's back. Painted with red-ringed, white spots.
Narrow-necked jar/bottle with an effigy-zoomorphic body, cylindrical neck, missing rim, no handles, and a footed base. The vessel is shaped like a jaguar with painted spots on the body in red and white. There appears to be a burnished finish on the exterior. The vessel was likely fired in an oxidizing atmosphere as the ceramic paste is orange and gray in color. The catalogue number is written on the bottom of the base and black ink on the bottom of the base reads: "2110."
Height:
20cm
Length:
27.5cm
Width:
11.4cm
Thickness:
0.6cm
Credit Line:
Max Uhle, William Pepper Peruvian Expedition, Funded by Phebe A. Hearst
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