Nasca bowl with painted crayfish inside.

Collection type: Object
Description: Nasca bowl with painted crayfish inside.
Long description: Circular pottery bowl with painted crayfish inside. The design covers the base of the interior of the bowl and the sides are painted a dark red colour. The exterior of the bowl is painted a dark red colour. The base is unpainted. The ceramic is fine grained and is a mid orange colour. There is a chip on the rim. [MJD 03/02/2015]
Geographical reference: Peru
Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Peru; Ica Region Nazca Province
Person: Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Puttick and Simpson
Date / Period: Archaeological period: Nasca
Date collected: By 1933
Acquisition information: Purchased: 1933
Materials and processes: Material Pottery, Material Pigment, Process Painted, Process Handbuilt, Process Slipped
Dimensions: Diameter: max 183 mm, Height: max 61 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1933.85.2
Research and responses: Information from E. de Bock from the Rijsmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden: The pot includes depictions of crayfish in which the fact area of the crayfish looks like a human face. This is an early Nasca piece, probably Nasca 3.

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