Title
Ceramic vessel used to store grain or corn beer chicha, or sometimes even for cooking
Caption
Ceramic vessel used to store grain or corn beer chicha, or sometimes even for cooking, Its large size indicates communal use associated with ritual feasting. The detail of the decorative feline (possibly jaguar) may indicate that the contents were protected by, or infused with, the protective spirit of supernatural feline creatures. Peru. Period Date : Initial Period c 1800 900 BC. Cerro Sechin, Casma Valley, north coast of Peru.
Info+
NJ Saunders
Credit line
Photo12/Universal Images Group/Werner Forman
Reference
UMG12A30_431
Model release
No
License type
Rights managed
Available size
17,2Mb (2,1Mb) / 10,0in x 6,7in / 3008 x 2000 (300dpi)