vase
- Museum number
- Am1941,04.28
- Description
-
Register 1941:
Pottery bulbous-convex vase with rounded base. It has three design zones or bands. The upper and lower band display spikes and severed heads (only one side of the head is visible) are clutched in- between. Painted polychrome slip.
- Production date
- 100BC-600
- Dimensions
-
Height: 5.50 inches
- Curator's comments
- Register addition "Nasca". 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
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1941
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1941,04.28
