Flaring bowl decorated with a series of ten units of concentric squares. Height 8.2 cm.; diameter 19.8 cm. Painted in four colors. The squares are painted in black on a white ground. The decoration covers only 2/3 of the exterior wall. The rim hand is purple. The remainder of the exterior as well as the entire interior is red. Illustrated by Kroeber and Strong, 1924, Plate 27u.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Grave 4, Ocucaje Site F, Ica Valley
Verbatim coll. place:
Ocucaje, Site F: Grave 4
Culture or time period:
Early Intermediate Period 3B, ancient Peru and Nazca culture (100 BC–800 AD)