Object Details
Culture
Chimu-Inca (Peru)
Late Horizon
Date
ca. 1470-1532
Medium
Blackware
Dimensions
5 3/4 x 5 inches (14.6 x 12.7 cm)
Credit Line
Transfer from the Sociology – Anthropology Department. Spring 1956.
Object
Number
56.234
This burnished blackware pottery vessel, in the shape of a lucuma fruit, has a tall and narrow spout(…)
This burnished blackware pottery vessel, in the shape of a lucuma fruit, has a tall and narrow spout with an outflaring ring. The figure of a monkey sits with rear haunches on the vessel’s shoulder; the front arms grasp the spout, with the monkey’s body forming a handle.
