Double Vessel
Whistling Jar
27590
Location: On Display in the Ancient Food & Flavor
From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 27590 |
| Current Location | Ancient Food & Flavor - On Display |
| Provenience | Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I |
| Culture Area | Andean |
| Locus | From the loosened soil |
| Date Made | 200-600 CE |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Ceramic | Clay |
| Iconography | Parrot | Corn |
| Description | Half a black double vessel with a parrot eating a corn cob. Narrow necked whistling vessel with a double chambered globular body, missing neck, missing rim, 1 bridge handle extending from the neck to the body, and a flat base. There is a molded/modeled parrot on the top of the second chamber eating a corn cobb. There is a hole in the neck of the parrot where the whistle is. There appears to be a burnished finish on the exterior and a smoothed finish on the interior. The vessel was likely fired in a reducing atmosphere as the surface is black and the interior is gray in color. The catalogue number is written on the bottom of the base and black ink on the bottom of the base reads: "1016." |
| Height | 16.5 cm |
| Thickness | 0.39 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 9.7 cm |
| Credit Line | William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
| Other Number | 1016 - Field No SF |
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