Bowl

MOA: University of British Columbia

2990/306

Polychrome bowl with rounded base, burnished surface, brown-red interior and black rim. On the exterior surface are truncated darts in orange-brown, gray and dark red paint, separated by vertical black lines on cream ground. Not repaired.


  • Type of Item bowl
  • Culture Nasca
  • Material clay, paint
  • Measurements height 10.0 cm, diameter 19.4 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 2990/0306