Effigy vessel

Artist Peru

DateAD 200-500

MediumCeramic

ClassificationsContainers

Credit LineGift of Henry Schnakenberg

Object number1950.43.14

DescriptionBrown, buff colored effigy modelled in the round with the face, hands and legs of a man in low relief with heads of snakes over his forehead. The hands and feet are incised and he has a feline mouth. Evidence of white paint along the scalloped edges and rim. Geometric designs on the legs. Paint appears to have been fugitive and washed off by the dealer, a common problem with these effigy vessels which were make primarily for burial. Mold-made in two sections; the "scalloped edges" represent mountain peaks, the "home" of this fanged supernatural, sometimes called "Ai'apec".

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