Bottle

MOA: University of British Columbia

2990/250

Double conical spout bottle with bowl base and bridge handle. Painted designs of ten varicoloured hummingbirds in orange-brown, red-brown, gray, gray-brown, light-brown and black on cream ground. Bowl base has black and brown pelt marks separated by black vertical lines on cream ground. Molded manufacture; burnished surface.


  • Type of Item bottle
  • Culture Nasca
  • Material adhesive, clay, paint
  • Measurements height 16.5 cm, width 14.1 cm, depth 14.0 cm (overall)

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

  • Made in Nasca

  • Creation Date between 101 BCE and 400
  • 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 2990/0250