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Museum Collections - Ancient Peru - Chimú - Artifact #4
WHO: Chimú culture
WHERE: North coast, Peru
WHEN: Middle Horizon/Late Intermediate Period, A.D. 900 -1450
WHAT: Blackware mould-made effigy vessels such as this one were made by the thousands by Chimú potters. The imagery of these ceramics is often very similar to that of their ancestors - the Moche - showing a continuity of religious symbols on the north coast of Peru. This religious imagery includes sea creatures, such as the manta ray and ducks, as well as a jungle creature, the monkey on the spout.
HOW: Mould-made earthenware; smoke-fired.
MUSEUM: Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art. G83.1.171
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