Rim Fragment

32558

From: Peru | Pachacamac

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number 32558
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Peru | Pachacamac
Culture Area Andean
Locus Found on the ground
Period Historic Period
Section American
Materials Ceramic
Description

With small raised ornament (a face).

Fragments. One rim sherd, two handles, and eight body sherds. There is a modeled animal, possibly a jaguar or monkey. Some of the sherds are painted, red and white. The vessels fired in oxidizing and reducing atmospheres as the paste of the sherds differs from orange to gray and black in color. The catalogue number is written on the object in black ink. Black ink on the interior side of the sherd with the raised decoration reads:"3742 h."

Credit Line William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897
Other Number 3742H - Field No SF

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