Bowl

Item number 2990/60 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.

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Description

Polished blackware bowl with straight, angled in sides and a rounded base. There are eighteen vertical incised lines on the exterior sides, which are 2.8 cm high. The bowl has been broken and repaired, and there is a tiny piece missing at one point where the sides meet the base, as well as numerous chips along the joins and overall spalling.

Specific Techniques

Blackware colour achieved by carbon-charging during firing.

Narrative

According to Sawyer, the Chongos style represents a continuation of the Paracas Necropolis tradition in the Pisco Valley that is contemporary with the Proto Nazca and first half of the Early Nazca Period in the Ica and Rio Grande de Nazca Valleys (Dawson's Nazca 1-3). Necropolis ceramic forms are further refined with sharp gambrels and rounded bases, and rendered in well-polished carbon-charged blackware with little surface decoration. Nazca related iconography is found only on Chongos textiles until Nazca 3 when slip decorated wares begin to appear in forms reflecting the Chongos tradition.