Pot Item Number: Sf621 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Blackware double whistling jar; tapering spout is connected by a flat bridge and a short tube to another vessel in the shape of a bird. Features of beak and wings are generalized. Some details, like eyes and legs are modelled. Air intake holes on head.
History Of Use
Mold-made, reduction fired double vessels with whistles are quite typical of the Chimu Style. The double vessel with the single tapering spout is typical of the Lambayeque Style (p.c., Santiago Uceda). The parrot appears in earlier north coast styles as well (Sawyer). Its appearance on the coast is taken as a sign of contact and trade with jungle groups. The whistle spout seems to have originated on the south coast (Sawyer).
Narrative
Chimu-Lambayeque style, Late Intermediate Period; 900-1476 C.E.
Iconographic Meaning
The bird is a parrot, a jungle bird.
Item History
What
- Name
- Pot
- Identification Number
- Sf621
- Type of Item
- pot
- Material
- clay
- Manufacturing Technique
- moulded, reduction fired and polished
- Overall
- height 17.5 cm, width 21.0 cm, depth 6.0 cm
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Peru
When
- Creation Date
- between 900 and 1476
- Collection Date
- between 1949 and 1966
- Ownership Date
- before May 4, 1981
- Acquisition Date
- on May 4, 1981
Other
- Item Classes
- ceramics
- Condition
- good
- Accession Number
- 0711/0123