Effigy vessel with a modeled head and spout and the rest of the body painted and straddled over the vessel. Height 21.2 cm.; maximum diameter 14.6 cm. Painted in six colors. The major parts of the figure are purple. The cap is orange with a white band around the forehead. The snake elements protruding from beneath the arms are basically grey. The spout and outlining is in black and the background is dark red which varies greatly in color due to firing. Some retouching of the paint and addition of clay is clearly evident on both sides and behind the neck where the vessel began to buckle. The head has a small hole drilled in the top. Illustrated by Kroeber and Strong, 1924, Plate 25b. Seler, 1923, Figure 317; Uhle, 1906, Figure V; Uhle, 1903, p. 781; Uhle, 1913, Figure 12:7. Jar with handle and slender spout, shaped and painted to represent “deity holding knife” and skull
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Grave 10, Ocucaje Site F, Ica Valley
Verbatim coll. place:
Ocucaje, Site F: Grave 10
Culture or time period:
Early Intermediate Period 3C, ancient Peru and Nazca culture (100 BC–800 AD)
Collector:
Max Uhle
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Jars
Accession date:
July 24, 1903
Department:
Ancient Peru
Loans:
S1957-1960 [XXX Wellington]: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (1957–1960)