Object Details
Culture
Chorrera (Ecuador)
Date
1100-400 BC
Medium
Earthenware
Dimensions
7 1/2 × 6 5/16 × 3 1/8 inches (19 × 16 × 8 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Thomas Carroll, PhD 1951
Object
Number
2006.070.031
This Chorrera double-spouted ceramic vessel is U-shaped, with a bird on the blindspout and a narrow (…)
This Chorrera double-spouted ceramic vessel is U-shaped, with a bird on the blindspout and a narrow curving bridge handle. The surface is treated with burnished red slip. Whistle holes are present on the bird finial, and sound would have been made either when air or water moved form one chamber of the vessel to the other.