Jar

Red ware, flat base; lower body straightly expanding upper, hemispherical, flaring neck with face in relief. Painted red-black and white in stylized Tiahuanacoid style with stylized animal faces.

Face-neck vessel. Narrow-necked jar/bottle with a globular body, flaring neck, rounded rim, no handles, and a flat base. The vessel is painted with a figural design in red and white over an orange slip (?). The neck has a modeled/molded face with ears, eyes, nose, mouth, and hat painted white and black. There appears to be a smoothed finish on the exterior. The vessel was likely fired in an oxidizing atmosphere with localized reduction as the ceramic paste is orange to gray in color. Fireclouding is present on the body. There are wide lines in the surface from smoothing. Evidence of usewear includes surface attrition on the bottom/base and residue on the interior. The catalogue number is written on the object in black ink. Black ink on the bottom of the base reads: "1541."