Nasca
Flaring cup bowl with masked feline
Nasca, 2000
Physical Qualities
Earthenware, polychrome, 3 15/16 × 5 11/16 in. (10 × 14.5 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of John C. Hobbes, Mobile, Alabama
Object Number
2001.433
Cup exterior shows masked feline carrying knife. The animal's cape, or signifier, wraps around the vessel and is marked by disembodied heads sprouting lúcuma. Tha cape terminates in a single smiling, bodiless figure with large hands. The vessel interior has been painted red in recent times.
Collected in Peru in 1950s
