Cup bowl painted with one main Anthropomorphic Mythical being holding a corn stalk and having fruits attached to its body-- and a smaller mythical creature on the reverse. Height 9.6 cm.; diameter 13.4 em. Painted in eight colors. The face of the main figure is purple, his arms flesh, forehead ornament dark red, band above forehead ornament brown, the first trophy head on cloak violet, and the mouth mask of the creature at the end of the cloak orange. The outlines arc black and the background white. The entire exterior is covered with decoration except for a small red solid-colored circle about the size of a half-dollar which covers the center of the bottom. This vessel is one of the most highly burnished in the sample. It was cracked in antiquity as evidenced by six pairs of mend holes drilled through the Clay. There is a-strong possibility, because of the fineness of the vessel and certain differences it has with the other vessels in the gravelot, that it may be a trade piece from the Nasca Valley. Illustrated by Kroeber and Strong, 1924, Plate 27h; Kroeber, 1956, Plate 35a; Proulx, 1968, Plate 7a; SeIer, 1923, Figure 44; Uhle, 1906, Figure IV; Uhle, 1913, Figure 12:13, and Schlesier, 1959, Figure 59.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Grave 3, Ocucaje Site F, Ica Valley
Verbatim coll. place:
Ocucaje, Site F: Grave 3
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)