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Vessel with snake

The belly of the black vessel is entwined with a snake. Comparable depictions can be seen in the Ethnological Museum Berlin on fork-necked vessels from the Chimú, among others from the Gretzer Collection (SMB, inv. no. V A 47949).

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Data Provider
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt

Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Chimú
Object type
vessels (containers)
Dimensions
140 mm
Material/Technique
Ceramics
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 31767
Other number(s)
RJM 1914/17 (Convolute number)

Provenance and sources

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