Face-neck blackware bottle
- Title:
- Face-neck blackware bottle
- Collection:
- Selections from the Cornell Anthropology Collections
- Donor:
- Ernst Frank
- Date:
- 1000-1375 AD
- Site:
- Lambayeque, Peru (department)
- Location:
- Lambayeque, Peru (department)
- Country:
- Peru
- ID Number:
- Anthr1986_001_0090_01
- Old Catalog Number:
- 986.1.90
- File Name:
- Anthr1986_001_0090_01.jpg
- Culture:
- Sicani
Lambayeque - Style/Period:
- Lambayeque
Late Intermediate Period - Work Type:
- bottles
pottery (object genre)
molding (forming) - Materials/Techniques:
- ceramic (material)
- Subject:
- monkeys (animals)
faces
anthropomorphic
human figures (visual works)
birds - Measurement:
- 14.4 x 12.4 (centimeters, height x diameter)
- Description:
- Black burnished ceramic bottle, without handle. Tapering neck and straight-sided annular base. Sican lord motif molded on neck, stylized monkeys in profile in relief on the shoulder. Minkeys have their tongues out and are wearing tassled headdresses. A small bird head emerges from the upper handle. Full description and comparison with example in Brunning Museum, Lambeyque can be found in complete Frank Collection catalog.
- Archival Collection:
- Precolumbian Peruvian textiles and ceramics
- Format:
- Image
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