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Effigy Vessel

Object Number:34425
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Mochica
Provenience: Peru
Trujillo
Culture Area: Andean
Section:American
Materials:Ceramic
Iconography:Human Figure
Credit Line:William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897
Other Number:3011 - Field No SF

Description

Flat base, irregular four-lobed body, slightly expanding tilted neck. Figure of sky god on front with cat incisors and wearing cat headband, two supporting serpents twined around lobs

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