vessel
- Museum number
- Am1938,-.19
- Description
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Spout and bridge pottery vessel modelled in the shape of a dog; painted black, brown and white.
- Production date
- 100BC-600
- Dimensions
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Height: 12 centimetres
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Length: 15.50 centimetres
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Width: 8 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- For a typology of vessel shapes, see Alfred Kroeber and Donald Collier (edited by Patrick H. Carmichael; with an afterword by Katharina J. Schreiber), ‘The Archaeology and Pottery of Nazca, Peru, Alfred L. Kroeber's 1926 Expedition’, 1998, Altamira Press, Walnut Creek-London- New Delhi, pp.: 94-96, figs. 90, 91. For further reading see Donald A. Proulx, ‘A Sourcebook of Nasca Ceramic Iconography, Reading a Culture through its Art’, 2006, University of Iowa Press.
The Date range for the Nasca period is based on Christopher Donnan, 'Ceramics of Ancient Peru', Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles, 1992.
- Location
- On display (G1/wp100)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1977 London, BM, Animals in Art
- Acquisition date
- 1938
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1938,-.19
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Am1938C3.19 (old CDMS no.)