1976.W.228 Urpu-style vessel (Peru, Chimú-Inka)


GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This vessel reflects the influence of Inca imperial expansion on coastal ceramic styles. This Late Horizon (1400-1532 CE) Chimú blackware vessel exhibits the distinctive features of a common Inca vessel form, the urpu. These features include the long, constricted neck, wide body, and flat base.

Adapted from
Kimberly L. Jones, PhD, Inca: Conquests of the Andes / Los Incas y las conquistas de los Andes, Label text [1976.W.228; S.1970.1; 1987.376; 1989.W.235; 2003.28], 2015.

NOTES
  • Chimú-Inka, Late Horizon, 1460-1534, updated by KJones in TMS on 09/23/13, 10/15/13, 11/29/13, 01/21/16, and 03/14/16.
  • Updated geography in TMS to reflect Inca label -- Peru: north coast.
  • Did not update dates since recently changed by KJones.
  • Fun Facts Source: Junius B. Bird Report, 1/26/1976, p. 18, TMS, Notes / Text Entries, Attribution.

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Artist/designers

Cultures
Chimú: AAT: 300017316
Inka (Inca): AAT: 300017326
Inca horizon: AAT: 300017352

Geography
Peru (nation): TGN: 1000056

Process/materials
ceramic (material): AAT: 300235507
clay: AAT: 300010439
burnishing (polishing): AAT: 30053869
coiling (pottery technique): AAT: 300053903
modeling (forming): AAT: 300053130
incising: AAT: 300053847
firing (technique): AAT: 300053887
relief (sculpture techniques): AAT: 300053622

Historical periods
Late Horizon Period: AAT: 300017332

Individuals

Subject terms
vessels (containers): AAT: 300193015
aryballoi (containers): AAT: 300198885
aryballos (containers): AAT: 300198885
urpu (urppus / vessels): AAT: 300410722
ritual vessels: AAT: 300265801
lip spouts: AAT: 300203343
chicha (food / maize beer): AAT: 300411637
beer (food / alcoholic beverage): AAT: 300302722
maize (zea mays species): AAT: 300375398
ritual (events): AAT: 300065284
feasts: AAT: 300069097
figures: AAT: 300189808
animals: DMA
birds (motifs): AAT: 300375751
birds (animals): AAT: 300266506
fish (animals): AAT: 300266085
geometric motifs: AAT: 300009764
geometric patterns: AAT: 300165213
lines (geometric concept): AAT: 300056279
bands (decorative): 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 existing information in TMS. 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: "Chimu - Late Intermediate Period. *No number. Arabaloid form, low relief fish and birds; 2 loop hands."

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General Description
This vessel reflects the influence of Inca imperial expansion on coastal ceramic styles. This Late Horizon (1400-1532 CE) Chimú blackware vessel exhibits the distinctive features of a common Inca vessel form, the urpu. These features include the long, constricted neck, wide body, and flat base.

Adapted from
Kimberly L. Jones, PhD, Inca: Conquests of the Andes / Los Incas y las conquistas de los Andes, Label text [1976.W.228; S.1970.1; 1987.376; 1989.W.235; 2003.28], 2015.

Fun Facts
  • In his 1976 report, Junius B. Bird, curator emeritus of South American archaeology at the American Museum of Natural History, notes: "Chimu - Late Intermediate Period. *No number. Arabaloid form, low relief fish and birds; 2 loop hands."

Archival Resources

Web Resources

Notes
  • Chimú-Inka, Late Horizon, 1460-1534, updated by KJones in TMS on 09/23/13, 10/15/13, 11/29/13, 01/21/16, and 03/14/16.
  • Updated geography in TMS to reflect Inca label -- Peru: north coast.
  • Did not update dates since recently changed by KJones.
  • Fun Facts Source: Junius B. Bird Report, 1/26/1976, p. 18, TMS, Notes / Text Entries, Attribution.

Catalogue essays

Artist/designers

Cultures
Chimú: AAT: 300017316
Inka (Inca): AAT: 300017326
Inca horizon: AAT: 300017352

Geography
Peru (nation): TGN: 1000056

Process/materials
ceramic (material): AAT: 300235507
clay: AAT: 300010439
burnishing (polishing): AAT: 30053869
coiling (pottery technique): AAT: 300053903
modeling (forming): AAT: 300053130
incising: AAT: 300053847
firing (technique): AAT: 300053887
relief (sculpture techniques): AAT: 300053622

Historical periods
Late Horizon Period: AAT: 300017332

Individuals

Subject terms
vessels (containers): AAT: 300193015
aryballoi (containers): AAT: 300198885
aryballos (containers): AAT: 300198885
urpu (urppus / vessels): AAT: 300410722
ritual vessels: AAT: 300265801
lip spouts: AAT: 300203343
chicha (food / maize beer): AAT: 300411637
beer (food / alcoholic beverage): AAT: 300302722
maize (zea mays species): AAT: 300375398
ritual (events): AAT: 300065284
feasts: AAT: 300069097
figures: AAT: 300189808
animals: DMA
birds (motifs): AAT: 300375751
birds (animals): AAT: 300266506
fish (animals): AAT: 300266085
geometric motifs: AAT: 300009764
geometric patterns: AAT: 300165213
lines (geometric concept): AAT: 300056279
bands (decorative): 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 existing information in TMS. 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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fish (animals): AAT: 300266085
birds (animals): AAT: 300266506
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*Arts of the Americas
animals (Animalia kingdom): AAT: 300249395
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ceramic (material): AAT: 300235507
clay: AAT: 300010439
modeling (forming): AAT: 300053130
incising: AAT: 300053847
coiling (pottery technique): AAT: 300053903
figures (representations): AAT: 300189808
burnishing (polishing): AAT: 300053869
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vessels (containers): AAT: 300193015
ritual vessels: AAT: 300265801
birds (motifs): AAT: 300375751
handles: AAT: 300024927
geometric motifs: AAT: 300009764
geometric patterns: AAT: 300165213
ritual (events): AAT: 300065284
lines (geometric concept): AAT: 300056279
relief (sculpture techniques): AAT: 300053622
bands (decorative): DMA
Peru (nation): TGN: 1000056
firing (technique): AAT: 300053887
feasts: AAT: 300069097
maize (plant/zea mays species): AAT: 300375398
beer (food / alcoholic beverage): AAT: 300302722
black (color): AAT: 300130920
Chimú: AAT: 300017316
Inca horizon: AAT: 300017352
Inca (Inka): AAT: 300017326
Late Horizon period (Pre-Columbian Andean styles and periods): AAT: 300017332
Chimú (former nation/state/empire): TGN: 8698270
lip spouts: AAT: 300203343
chicha (food / maize beer): AAT: 300411637
urpu (urppus / vessels): AAT: 300410722
aryballoi (containers): AAT: 300198885
aryballos (containers): AAT: 300198885
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