Chimú
Macaw effigy bottle
Chimú, 999
Physical Qualities
Earthenware, reduced black, 9 1/2 in. (24.1 cm.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Alan Wurtzburger
Object Number
1960.30.99
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1960; Alan and Janet Wurtzburger, by purchase, ??
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Myths of Ancient Peru," October 7, 1969 to November 30, 1969, Circulated to Tennessee Fine Arts Center, Nashville, Tennessee; Loch Haven Art Center, Orlando, Forida; Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, Florida; Isaac Delgado Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana; Birmingham Art Museum, Birmingham, Alabama; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia; and Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina
"The Wurtzburger Collection Pre-Columbian Art," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1958, fig. 99.
"Myths of Ancient Peru," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1969, cat. no. 91.
Rowe, Ann Pollard, "1984 Costumes and Featherwork of the Lords of Chimor: Textiles from Peru's North Coast," Washington, D.C.: Textile Museum, fig. 140.
