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.

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• Type of Item bowl
• Culture Paracas, Nasca
• Material clay, adhesive
• Measurements height 6.5 cm, diameter 19.0 cm (overall)

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• Previous Owner Alan R. Sawyer, Erika H. Sawyer
• Received from Erika H. Sawyer

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• Made in Peru

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• Creation Date between 101 BCE and 200
• Collection Date between 1950 and 1975
• Ownership Date before January 15, 2013
• Acquisition Date on January 15, 2013

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• Item Classes ceramics
• Condition fair
• Accession Number 2990/0060