Cup bowl decorated with an anthropomorphic mythical being. Height 10.0 cm.; diameter 16.9 cm. Painted in seven colors. The creature has a purple face, white forehead ornament, orange mouth mask, flesh sleeves, and a brown trophy head in his cloak. The background is black and the rim band purple. The entire interior is red with cris-crossing burnishing lines on the bottom which may have been intentional. The design area extends on to the bottom of the vessel, but a red slipped circular area covers the extreme bottom. Lumps in the vessel wall appear to be caused by very large temper. Illustrated by Kroeber and Strong, 1924, Plate 27n; Uhle, 1913, Figure 12:1.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Grave 9, Ocucaje Site F, Ica Valley
Verbatim coll. place:
Ocucaje, Site F: Grave 9
Culture or time period:
Early Intermediate Period 4, ancient Peru and Nazca culture (100 BC–800 AD)
Collector:
Max Uhle
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Bowls (vessels) and Masks (costume)
Accession date:
July 24, 1903
Department:
Ancient Peru
Loans:
S1957-1960 [XXX Wellington]: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (1957–1960)