The name of this item is missing in its original language. If you know the name or have any comments, please use the form to get in touch with the institution that provided the data.
Container, boat with paddling fisherman; transporting a shark and a ray as prey
This vessel shows a fisherman sitting and paddling on a boat made of totora reed. Behind him lies his prey, a ray and a shark. These boats made of totora, called caballitos de totora (seahorses made of reeds), are still in use on the Peruvian north coast, in Huanchaco. On the Peruvian coast, rays only appear during the El Niño phenomenon, so the ceramics point to this climatic anomaly. During an El Niño it rains heavily on the otherwise desert-like coast of Peru.
Data Provider
Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde
Show only fields containing data
Cataloguing data
Cultural attribution
südliche Moche
Object type
Gefäß
Dimensions
Höhe: 19 cm, Länge: 29 cm, Breite: 14 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
modelled, painted
modelled, painted
Current location
Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Inventory number
053253
Provenance and sources
Provenance
There is no confirmed provenance for this object. Like many objects in museum collections, it comes from looted graves. Since there is a great similarity with ceramics recovered by Max Uhle from his excavations at Huaca de la Luna, we assume that this pottery also comes from the same context.
Information about the record
Legal status metadata
Related objects
The name of this item is missing in its original language. If you know the name or have any comments, please use the form to get in touch with the institution that provided the data.
The name of this item is missing in its original language. If you know the name or have any comments, please use the form to get in touch with the institution that provided the data.
The name of this item is missing in its original language. If you know the name or have any comments, please use the form to get in touch with the institution that provided the data.
The name of this item is missing in its original language. If you know the name or have any comments, please use the form to get in touch with the institution that provided the data.
The name of this item is missing in its original language. If you know the name or have any comments, please use the form to get in touch with the institution that provided the data.
This content was machine-translated