Stirrup spout vessel
- Title:
- Stirrup spout vessel
- Collection:
- Selections from the Cornell Anthropology Collections
- Donor:
- Ernst Frank
- Date:
- 200-750 AD
- Site:
- Nazca, Ica, Peru
- Location:
- Nazca, Ica, Peru
- Country:
- Peru
- ID Number:
- Anthr1986_001_0033_01
- Old Catalog Number:
- 986.1.33
- File Name:
- Anthr1986_001_0033_01.jpg
- Culture:
- Moche
- Style/Period:
- Nazca
Early Intermediate Period
Mochica - Work Type:
- pottery (object genre)
bottles - Materials/Techniques:
- ceramic (material)
paint - Subject:
- deities
figures (representations)
fishermen (people)
mountains
waves - Measurement:
- 24 (centimeters, height)
- Description:
- God seated cross-legged between mountain peaks or points of rocky promontory. Figure holds small square shield in left hand. God wears a sleeveless shirt or poncho divided into red & cream fields. There are traces of paint indicating a belt. Figure's pointed hat, also divided into red & cream fields, resembles the mountain upon which he sits, possibly indicating an identification between the figure & the mountain itself. A tumi, or ceremonial knife is suspended from the back of his belt. He appears to have his hair dressed in two long tresses. A mace resting on mountain peak to figure's left has a top in the form of a fist. See complete Frank Collection catalogue for published examples of fist-shaped maces. Below the promontory or mountain waves are indicated. In similar arrangements of this scene it is obvious that a fisher-god sits on a sea cliff, attempting to catch various water creatures while a human gathers shellfish (Peru, Museo Nacional de Antropologia e Arqueologia WS/17116 (1562) and 1/4085). However, here the composition lacks the marine life and includes the shield & fist-shaped mace.
- Archival Collection:
- Precolumbian Peruvian textiles and ceramics
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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