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Bowl with corn blossom motif

Nasca, 200-350

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Nasca

Bowl with corn blossom motif

Nasca, 200-350

Physical Qualities Earthenware, polychrome, 2 15/16 × 7 1/16 in. (7.5 × 18 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of the Jamosil Foundation, Alexandria, Virginia
Object Number 1989.186
Straight sided bowl, polychrome painted with repeated pattern of geometricized corn blossoms (inverted). Three dots located in the center or head of the blossom give it a face or head -- animate it. Each blossom is separated by a thin vertical line. early Nasca (ca. AD 300)

Culture

Nasca

2000–2000

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