GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This object is related to another Moche stirrup-spout bottle in our collection (1976.W.124), also depicting an individual suffering from the effects of mucosal leishmaniasis. However, this individual is at a more advanced stage in the disease, because he has lost more facial tissue and perhaps his ears as well; he wears a headcloth, to which his ear ornaments are tied. Without the cloth, he would not be able to wear this ritual attire. A similar object at the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University (1989.8.72) also shows a cross-legged man with hands on knees, head tilted to his left, and ear ornaments supported by a headcloth. In the example here, he carries a bowl, and there is something painted on the surface of the globular part of the vessel. He may be performing a ritual act, and the object between his knees is part of his paraphernalia. The famous Moche owl shamaness vessel at the Harvard Peabody Museum is shown in this way with her curing mesa objects spread out before her.
Adapted from
Kylie Quave, PhD, DMA unpublished material, 2006.
NOTES
- Moche, Early Intermediate Period, 400–600 C.E. (noted on TMS), updated by KJones on TMS, 11/29/13, 06/19/14, 02/05/16, and 09/06/16.
- Fun Facts Source: Junius B. Bird Report, 1/26/1976, p. 31, TMS, Notes / Text Entries, Attribution.
- General description drawn from: Kylie Quave, May 2006; TMS, Notes / Text Entries, Remarks.
Cultures
Moche: AAT: 300017287
Geography
Moche (river): TGN: 7016595
Peru (nation): TGN: 1000056
Process/materials
ceramic (material): AAT: 300235507
slip (clay): AAT: 300010459
paint (coating): AAT: 300015029
slip glaze: AAT: 300015110
clay: AAT: 300010439
modeling (forming): AAT: 300053130
coiling (pottery technique): AAT: 300053903
firing (technique): AAT: 300053887
Historical periods
Early Intermediate period (Pre-Columbian Andean styles and periods): AAT: 300017280
Individuals
Subject terms
vessels (containers): AAT: 300193015
ritual vessels: AAT: 300265801
ritual objects: AAT: 300312158
bridge spouts: AAT: 300203289
stirrup-spout vessel (containers): DMA
decorating (process): AAT: 300056257
figures (representations): AAT: 300189808
human figures: AAT: 300404114
male: AAT: 300189559
sitting (seated): AAT: 300263970
headcloths (headgear): AAT: 300213003
headwear: AAT: 300209285
ear ornaments: AAT: 300211279
earspools: AAT: 300209300
disease (health-related concepts): AAT: 300055130
leishmaniasis (parasitic disease / health-related concept): DMA
deformation: AAT: 300072976
mouths (animal or human components): DMA
tunics (main garments): AAT: 300209869
bowls (vessels): AAT: 300203596
ritual (events): AAT: 300065284
curing (healing): DMA
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PROVENANCE
Until 1976: Nora and John Wise, New York [1]
From 1976: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, The Nora and John Wise Collection, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Jake L. Hamon, the Eugene McDermott Family, Mr. and Mrs. Algur H. Meadows and the Meadows Foundation, Incorporated, and Mr. and Mrs. John D. Murchison [1], [2]
[1] The main source for this provenance is letter from A.L. Woodman, Chief of Valuation Analysis Section of the Internal Revenue Service, to Harry S. Parker, Director of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts (dated July 23, 1979, copy in Dallas Museum of Art Collections Records Object File, Confidential). Exceptions and other supporting documents are noted.
[2] The name of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, founded in 1933, was changed to the Dallas Museum of Art in 1983.
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FUN FACTS
- In his 1976 report, Junius B. Bird, curator emeritus of South American archaeology at the American Museum of Natural History, notes: "Mochica (Moche), Phase 4. *N85 Stirrup spout, seated beggar, mutilated and with feet amputated."
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This object is related to another Moche stirrup-spout bottle in our collection (1976.W.124), also depicting an individual suffering from the effects of mucosal leishmaniasis. However, this individual is at a more advanced stage in the disease, because he has lost more facial tissue and perhaps his ears as well; he wears a headcloth, to which his ear ornaments are tied. Without the cloth, he would not be able to wear this ritual attire. A similar object at the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University (1989.8.72) also shows a cross-legged man with hands on knees, head tilted to his left, and ear ornaments supported by a headcloth. In the example here, he carries a bowl, and there is something painted on the surface of the globular part of the vessel. He may be performing a ritual act, and the object between his knees is part of his paraphernalia. The famous Moche owl shamaness vessel at the Harvard Peabody Museum is shown in this way with her curing mesa objects spread out before her.
Adapted from
Kylie Quave, PhD, DMA unpublished material, 2006.
Fun Facts
- In his 1976 report, Junius B. Bird, curator emeritus of South American archaeology at the American Museum of Natural History, notes: "Mochica (Moche), Phase 4. *N85 Stirrup spout, seated beggar, mutilated and with feet amputated."
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Notes
- Moche, Early Intermediate Period, 400–600 C.E. (noted on TMS), updated by KJones on TMS, 11/29/13, 06/19/14, 02/05/16, and 09/06/16.
- Fun Facts Source: Junius B. Bird Report, 1/26/1976, p. 31, TMS, Notes / Text Entries, Attribution.
- General description drawn from: Kylie Quave, May 2006; TMS, Notes / Text Entries, Remarks.
Cultures
Moche: AAT: 300017287
Geography
Moche (river): TGN: 7016595
Peru (nation): TGN: 1000056
Process/materials
ceramic (material): AAT: 300235507
slip (clay): AAT: 300010459
paint (coating): AAT: 300015029
slip glaze: AAT: 300015110
clay: AAT: 300010439
modeling (forming): AAT: 300053130
coiling (pottery technique): AAT: 300053903
firing (technique): AAT: 300053887
Historical periods
Early Intermediate period (Pre-Columbian Andean styles and periods): AAT: 300017280
Individuals
Subject terms
vessels (containers): AAT: 300193015
ritual vessels: AAT: 300265801
ritual objects: AAT: 300312158
bridge spouts: AAT: 300203289
stirrup-spout vessel (containers): DMA
decorating (process): AAT: 300056257
figures (representations): AAT: 300189808
human figures: AAT: 300404114
male: AAT: 300189559
sitting (seated): AAT: 300263970
headcloths (headgear): AAT: 300213003
headwear: AAT: 300209285
ear ornaments: AAT: 300211279
earspools: AAT: 300209300
disease (health-related concepts): AAT: 300055130
leishmaniasis (parasitic disease / health-related concept): DMA
deformation: AAT: 300072976
mouths (animal or human components): DMA
tunics (main garments): AAT: 300209869
bowls (vessels): AAT: 300203596
ritual (events): AAT: 300065284
curing (healing): DMA
RELATED OBJECTS
PROVENANCE
Until 1976: Nora and John Wise, New York [1]
From 1976: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, The Nora and John Wise Collection, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Jake L. Hamon, the Eugene McDermott Family, Mr. and Mrs. Algur H. Meadows and the Meadows Foundation, Incorporated, and Mr. and Mrs. John D. Murchison [1], [2]
[1] The main source for this provenance is letter from A.L. Woodman, Chief of Valuation Analysis Section of the Internal Revenue Service, to Harry S. Parker, Director of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts (dated July 23, 1979, copy in Dallas Museum of Art Collections Records Object File, Confidential). Exceptions and other supporting documents are noted.
[2] The name of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, founded in 1933, was changed to the Dallas Museum of Art in 1983.
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