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pot

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human history
  • Other Name

    Nazca

  • Description

    pot, ceramic, Nazca (?fake?). Spherical lower body with straight inward tapering long sides, flat base. No neck, rim rounded. Exterior is a cream glaze with red, black and white figures around two-thirds of the pot. Image represents two heads, one on top of the other with a hand out to one side, holding a knife or dagger. On the other side is an elongated 'body' with 3 faces enclosed. The "body" has 2 legs and a tail.

    Red, black and cream stripes around the outside of the rim. Previously broken and repaired with a fragment missing from the lower body. Peru

  • Place
    Peru
  • Accession Number
    1971.162
  • Accession Date
    28 Sep 1971
  • Other Id

    13982 (Asset Register)

    K2274 (ceramic)

  • Department

    Applied Arts and Design

  • Display Room

    applied arts west, decorative arts, Ancient Worlds

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  • pot, Nazca, K2274, 13982, Photographed by Richard NG, digital, 01 Aug 2017, © Auckland Museum CC BY
  • pot, Nazca, K2274, 13982, Photographed by Richard NG, digital, 01 Aug 2017, © Auckland Museum CC BY
  • pot, Nazca, K2274, 13982, Photographed by Richard NG, digital, 01 Aug 2017, © Auckland Museum CC BY
  • pot, Nazca, K2274, 13982, Photographed by Richard NG, digital, 01 Aug 2017, © Auckland Museum CC BY
  • pot, Nazca, K2274, 13982, Photographed by Richard NG, digital, 01 Aug 2017, © Auckland Museum CC BY
  • pot, Nazca, K2274, 13982, Photographed by Richard NG, digital, 01 Aug 2017, © Auckland Museum CC BY

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