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Nazca Art : Early Nazca Polychrome Bowl
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Early Nazca Polychrome Bowl - K.095
Origin: Southern Coast of Peru
Circa: 1
AD
to 300
AD
Dimensions:
7.5" (19.1cm) high
x 6.5" (16.5cm) depth
Collection: Pre-Columbian
Medium: Terracotta
$7,000.00
Location: United States
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Three identical images of the Nazca monkey God
encircle this splendid bowl. He wears a
headdress with vegetable motifs and earrings of
gold discs; in his hands he carries a knife-like
weapon. Early Nazca religion centered on fertility
deities, many of which were linked to the
collection of trophy heads from defeated
enemies. A bowl such as this was probably
buried with a warrior. It vividly evokes a time and
place, an entire way of life, very different from
our own. Though the culture it shows us is alien,
its aesthetics still speak clearly across time.
- (K.095)
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