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Object Number 37-92-30/1577
Display Title Black ware potsherds
Descriptions
Inventory Description Ceramic body sherds, relief dot or wedge decoration on exterior, some sherds with decorative incised lines, one sherd with relief of a beaked figure in profile holding a staff? in the right hand and round shield-like object in the left, other sherd has partial repeating zoomorphic figures in relief, black paste
Classification
  • Sherd
Department Archaeological
Culture
  • Late Chimu?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / Peru / La Libertad Region
Additional Geographic Terms Moche
Materials Ceramic
Dimensions Overall (Measurement of largest ): 10.8 x 9.9 x 1.4 cm (4 1/4 x 3 7/8 x 9/16 in.)
Quantity 8
Label on object 37-92-30/1577

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Tapa
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Handle
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Mask
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Mask
Raw Material
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Cast
Palenque
Water bottles
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Bottle
La Libertad Region
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Figurine
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Sculpture
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Polychrome-on-off white ceramic Story Turtle
2004.24.34100.1 Polychrome-on-off white ceramic Story Turtle
New Mexico
Image Not Available for Carved wooden ancestor figure (kawe)
61-53-70/3949 Carved wooden ancestor figure (kawe)
Village of Otsjanep