Pottery bowl painted with conventional figure and 'horrible bird'. Polychrome.

Collection type: Object
Description: Pottery bowl painted with conventional figure and 'horrible bird'. Polychrome.
Long description: Circular pottery bowl painted with conventional figure. The design covers the whole of the exterior of the bowl. The figure has a one eyed head and open beak, its body is the base of the bowl, with legs and wings on the sides. The interior of the bowl is painted plain dark red colour around the top and unpainted below. 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 117 mm, Height: max 90 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1933.75.4
Research and responses: Information from E. de Bock from the Rijsmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden: The painted design includes "horrible bird", called such as he has trophy heads in his beak. His wings are also in the shape of trophy heads. His tail feathers include a motif of snakes between human legs. [JN 19/9/2001]

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