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.

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• Type of Item bottle
• Culture Nasca
• Material clay, paint
• Measurements height 15.8 cm, width 11.3 cm, depth 19.5 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 Nasca

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• Creation Date between 400 and 500
• 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 2990/0392