Photographer: Andrea Blumtritt | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 InternationalSpherical, round-bottomed jug with a tall, straight neck and a flaring rim. There is a wide, circumferential band on the neck, which was probably driven out. It is decorated with an anthropomorphic face. Both sides of the object have been smoothened and smudged. Its exterior is primed, painted and highly polished. The primer and paint are partially eroded. The body of the vessel is cracked. The pottery has a dark red base colour, which is painted black on the outside of the vessel. An anthropomorphic face appears on the neck, which has attached (ears, eyes, nose, mouth) and painted attributes (facial decoration). The opposite part of the neck was painted with geometric motifs. A black band runs along the base of the neck. The inner rim shows remnants of a dark red undercoat. The body remains undecorated. According to Lothrop 1926: Nandaime ware. Cultural significance: the mould inventory of the group exclusively comprises jugs, which often have a spherical body. Their diagnostic decorations indicate a typological relationship with the Mora Policromo, variedad Guabal group (1200-800d.C.). (Künne 2004)
Cataloguing data
Wandstärke: 0,6 cm
Diameter: 5,2 cm
Height: 19 cm
Depth: 17,3 cm
Width: 17,4 cm
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Production
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Assignment to a curated holding:
American Archaeology
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