Culture or people Moche culture
Creation date 1-200 AD
Materials ceramic, slip
Dimensions 7 1/2 x 5 x 7 in.
Location Native Art of the Americas Gallery
Credit line Gift of Bonnie and David Ross
Accession number 2000.293

Gallery Label

The seated figure wears a bag containing coca leaves, from which cocaine is made, for coca-chewing rituals.

A common vessel shape used in ancient Peru had a "stirrup-spout" handle, in which a center spout at the top is connected to the vessel by a pair of tubes curved like a horse's stirrup.

Descriptive tags added by visitors:

big disc earrings, brown and white, brown tones, close fitting hat, comfortable, crouched figure, drinking bottle, flared nostrils, handle and spout out of back, helmet, human vessel, indian, jar, knees drawn up under clothing, large earrings, shoes poking out, sippy cup, squatty, stone, watchful
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