Description

Single spout polychrome effigy bottle with polish technique on surface and strap handle. Painted whiskered maize deity. Maize ear forms with the deity's head in blind spout. Pelt, rear legs and polychrome tail of a Pampas native cat over top of human arms. Geometrical black on cream motif between paws carved in relief and sweet pepino vines with fruit held in hands. Geay necklace with red-brown and orange-brown lucuma native fruits. Dark red-brown, black, orange-brown, cream and grey paint on cream background on chest. Middle Nasca Period. Breakage not restored.