1976.W.167 Bowl: hummingbirds (Peru, Nasca)

Nazca (Nasca): AAT: 300017290

Peru (nation): TGN: 1000056

Nazca: TGN: 7033105

ceramic (material): AAT: 300235507

clay: AAT: 300010439

slip (clay): AAT: 300010459

slip glaze: AAT: 300015110

paint (coating): AAT: 300015029

modeling (forming): AAT: 300053130

coiling (pottery technique): AAT: 300053903

firing (technique): AAT: 300053887

Early Intermediate period (Pre-Columbian Andean styles and periods): AAT: 300017280

vessels (containers): AAT: 300193015

bowls (vessels): AAT: 300203596

serving dishes: AAT: 300198294

ritual vessels: AAT: 300265801

figures (representations): AAT: 300189808

animals (Animalia kingdom): AAT: 300249395

birds (animals): AAT: 300266506

birds (motifs): AAT: 300375751

hummingbirds (birds/animals/Trochilidae family): AAT: 300256337

repetition (artistic concept): AAT: 300400861

geometric motifs: AAT: 300009764

geometric patterns: AAT: 300165213

lines (geometric concept): AAT: 300056279

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.

Apply to objects where number equals 1976.W.167