Double spout bottle decorated with an Anthropomorphic Mythical Being. Height 19.0 cm.; diameter of body, 15.5 cm. Painted in 9 colors. The ground color is white. The face of the creature is purple with a white mouth mask, orange forehead ornament, and red fringe over the forehead ornament. The club in his right hand is yellow and the trophy head dark yellow. Grey is used for parts of the body as well as for the lower row of "spikes" on the cloak. Brown is used in the cloak and for features of the feline head at its end. The outlining on the spouts is black. Brushwork is careless in some places as evidenced by gaps between the colors and the outlines. In some places the outline has been painted over, suggesting a preliminary sketch. The spouts are rather lumpy. Illustrated by Kroeber and Strong, 1924, Plate 25d; Proulx, 1968, Figure 18; Seler, 1923, Figure 43; Uhle, 1906b, Figure III; and Uhle, 1913, Figure 12:3.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Grave 11b, Ocucaje Site F, Ica Valley
Verbatim coll. place:
Ocucaje, Site F: Grave 11
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:
Bottles and Masks (costume)
Accession date:
July 24, 1903
Department:
Ancient Peru
Loans:
S1945-1946 #3: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (dates unknown) and S1957-1960 [XXX Wellington]: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (1957–1960)