Bottle

MOA: University of British Columbia

2990/249

Double conical spout polished bottle with bridge handle and rounded base. Painted designs of a falcon-otter deity on orange-brown, cream-orange, black, gray, red-orange and red-brown paint holding a cream and black trophy head with mouth and hands. In both sides of deity there are two black and cream faces on red-brown ground and four small inverted triangular faces below them. Molded manufacture. Breakage restored.


  • Type of Item bottle
  • Culture Nasca
  • Material adhesive, clay, paint
  • Measurements height 17.8 cm, width 15.0 cm, depth 14.9 cm (overall)

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

  • Made in Nasca

  • Creation Date between 101 BCE and 800
  • Collection Date between 1950 and 1975
  • Ownership Date before January 15, 2013
  • Acquisition Date on January 15, 2013

  • Item Classes ceramics
  • Condition fair
  • Accession Number 2990/0249