Burial urn ·  Pérou, Chancay · ID: 3036453

Description

light-beige fired clay, dark brown painting, round bodied corpus, the neck of the vessel provided with anthropomorphic facial features, partly modelled, partly painted, with both hands holding the small body of a child in front of the breast, painted band ornaments, the rim of the vessel dam., abrasion of paint in some areas, rep. (bottom), metal base

Littérature comparée

Paz, Octavio et. al., Ritual Arts of the New World, Geneve 2000, p. 353