Animal Effigy Bottle

OriginFar North Coast, Columbia

PeriodEarly Intermediate Period (200 BCE-600 CE)

Date100-500 CE

MediumRed earthenware, black pigment, and hand-built.

DimensionsOverall: 20.2 x 25.4 x 10.8 cm (7 15/16 x 10 x 4 1/4 in.)

DescriptionVicus zoomorphic stirrup-spout bottle, Early Intermediate period, with elongated body, and deeply incised eyes. It is painted in brownish-orange with black resist geometric decoration.

Credit LineGift of George and Helen Gardiner

Object numberG83.1.178

Classifications

Ancestral Abiayala

Sub-classification

Andean

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Status

Not on view

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