Urn

Chancay culture, Pre-Columbian

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Cylindrical vessel with slightly flared mouth. The exterior with a continuous panel depicting two seated chiefs or scribes wearing long, elaborate, plumed headdresses and loincloths. Above them are groups of psuedo-glyphs. In reddish-brown, black and beige pigments. Two similar seated chiefs painted around slightly corseted walls. Each slightly stooped forwar, wearing long elaborate headdress, loincloth tied at back, and right outstretched hand pointing downwards, possibly scribes. One figure has drops falling from a sloped nose, other has goatee and stares upward with mouth agape. Band of glyphs painted above. Intact with red-brown, black, and beige against light brown ground paint.
A double-spouted vessel with squat, globular body. The surface painted with a human/parrot-headed deity. The spouts splayed and tapered. The handle with small break. In red, orange, brown, and beige pigments.
Stirrup-spouted vessel
male, seated