GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This object is related to another Moche stirrup-spout bottle in our collection (1976.W.123), but the individual here is at a less advanced stage of mucosal leishmaniasis than the other. He has suffered less loss of flesh than the other figure. His head is tilted back, as if experiencing a vision, and he wears a strand of espingo seeds, a known hallucinogenic substance. Espingo seeds are still sold today in markets on the north coast, in double strands as they are often pictured in Moche ceramic images. They are also part of the curing mesa implements painted onto the globular bottom of the owl shamaness vessel at the Harvard Peabody Museum.
Excerpt 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Kylie Quave, PhD, DMA unpublished material, 2006.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
hairstyles: AAT: 300262903
ear ornaments: AAT: 300211279
earspools: AAT: 300209300
necklaces: AAT: 300046001
beads (pierced objects): AAT: 300234006
seeds (plant components): AAT: 300400469
plants (living organisms): AAT: 300132360
hallucinogen (psychoactive agent): DMA
tunics (main garments): AAT: 300209869
geometric motifs: AAT: 300009764
geometric patterns: AAT: 300165213
stepped frets (meanders (patterns)/motifs): AAT: 300010171
stepped yoke (geometric patterns/motifs): DMA
circles (plane figures): AAT: 300055627
disease (health-related concepts): AAT: 300055130
leishmaniasis (parasitic disease / health-related concept): DMA
deformation: AAT: 300072976
ritual (events): AAT: 300065284
curing (healing): DMA
visions (life events): AAT: 300251603
rattles: AAT: 300041933
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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FUN FACTS
- In his 1976 report, Junius B. Bird, curator emeritus of South American archaeology at the American Museum of Natural History, notes: "***P22 Surmounted by kneeling mutilated person whose feet have been amputated, holds one of his amputated feet in left hand and unidentified object in his right. Nose and portion of lip cut? away as part of mutilation. Mochica IV."
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General Description
This object is related to another Moche stirrup-spout bottle in our collection (1976.W.123), but the individual here is at a less advanced stage of mucosal leishmaniasis than the other. He has suffered less loss of flesh than the other figure. His head is tilted back, as if experiencing a vision, and he wears a strand of espingo seeds, a known hallucinogenic substance. Espingo seeds are still sold today in markets on the north coast, in double strands as they are often pictured in Moche ceramic images. They are also part of the curing mesa implements painted onto the globular bottom of the owl shamaness vessel at the Harvard Peabody Museum.
Excerpt 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: "***P22 Surmounted by kneeling mutilated person whose feet have been amputated, holds one of his amputated feet in left hand and unidentified object in his right. Nose and portion of lip cut? away as part of mutilation. Mochica IV."
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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
hairstyles: AAT: 300262903
ear ornaments: AAT: 300211279
earspools: AAT: 300209300
necklaces: AAT: 300046001
beads (pierced objects): AAT: 300234006
seeds (plant components): AAT: 300400469
plants (living organisms): AAT: 300132360
hallucinogen (psychoactive agent): DMA
tunics (main garments): AAT: 300209869
geometric motifs: AAT: 300009764
geometric patterns: AAT: 300165213
stepped frets (meanders (patterns)/motifs): AAT: 300010171
stepped yoke (geometric patterns/motifs): DMA
circles (plane figures): AAT: 300055627
disease (health-related concepts): AAT: 300055130
leishmaniasis (parasitic disease / health-related concept): DMA
deformation: AAT: 300072976
ritual (events): AAT: 300065284
curing (healing): DMA
visions (life events): AAT: 300251603
rattles: AAT: 300041933
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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