Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Polychrome bowl with agricultural deity

Artist Nazca culture (Peru, South Coast)

Date200-300

Made/manufacturedSouth America

MediumCeramic with pigments

Dimensions4 1/8 x 4 5/8 x 4 5/8 in. (10.5 x 11.7 x 11.7 cm)

ClassificationsCeramics

Credit LineGift of Mrs. A.H. Spivack, in memory of Dr. A.H. Spivack

Object numberC-75-26

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ANCIENT AMERICAN

DescriptionSmall bowl with wide rounded bottom, wall rises with an inward slope, rounding outward to flaring rim. Burnished polychrome depiction (sideways) of feline head with long arrow-tongue, rectangular body extending along bottom of wall feet and legs spread out behind, panels of arrows fill wall over body.