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Object Number 46-77-30/4928
Display Title Red and white vessel in florero, or "flowerpot", style
Descriptions
Object Description Red and white vessel in florero, or "flowerpot", style with canines emerging from strumbus shell on inner rim. Rim has notches all around.
Inventory Description Ceramic bowl, flat base, flared and crenellated rim, brown on white serpent desi
Classification
  • Bowl
Department Archaeological
Culture
  • Muchik
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / Peru / La Libertad Region / Trujillo Province / Chicama
Additional Geographic Terms North Coast; Chicama Valley
Materials Ceramic
Dimensions Overall: 9.5 x 22 cm (3 3/4 x 8 11/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 46-77-30/4928 / Sausal
Credit Line Gift of Alfred M. Tozzer and Donald Scott, 1946

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