Bowl

MOA: University of British Columbia

2990/229

Flaring and polished bowl with a slight round base. Painted designs of a barbed band with vencejos (birds) between barbs. Red, orange, purple, yellow, gray and black on cream ground. Molded manufacture. Broken and repaired.


  • Type of Item bowl
  • Culture Nasca
  • Material adhesive, clay, paint
  • Measurements height 5.3 cm, diameter 12.9 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 2990/0229