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

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Bottle with Human Effigy Head

Maker Peru Highland Santa Valley, Recuay

Date300-600

Made/manufacturedSouth America

MediumCeramic with resist blackened design on burnished red slip, with buff pigment

Dimensions5 1/2 x 4 3/4 in. (14 x 12.1 cm)

ClassificationsCeramics

Credit LineHarn Museum of Art Collection, University Gallery purchase

Object numberC-73-171

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ANCIENT AMERICAN

DescriptionEarly Intermediate Period. Globular pot with flat base, wall rising with outward slope, rounding to inward slope at 2/3 height, narrow neck with wide flat flaring rim. handle loop from edge of rim to wall, attached head on opposite side, cylindrical with large ear spools, domical cap, beaked nose, large inscribed eyes, small slit mouth, brownish red slip with buff pigment on interior of rim, cap eyes and ear spools of figure, upper 2/3 of wall painted buff with resist patterns of geometric shapes, mostly panels of wavy lines.