Effigy Vessel

39-20-13

From: Peru

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 39-20-13
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Moche
Provenience Peru
Culture Area Andean
Period Early Chimu
Section American
Materials Clay
Iconography Man | Duck
Description

Red ware; red and white paint. Figure of a man, seated, holding a long billed bird. Wears a shirt, necklace of long beads? and heavy ear pendants. His hair? is tied behind and the head-cloth in a great bow knotted over the forehead. Stirrup spout.

Height 19 cm
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. George W. Childs Drexel, 1939

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