1989.W.235 Double-chambered bottle with bird on blind spout (Peru, Inka)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This vessel reflects the influence of Inca imperial expansion on coastal ceramic styles. The double-chambered vessel form with a false spout became common throughout the Inca Empire, with the impressed design and paint palette here suggestive of a coastal style.
1987.376 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) blackware vessel exhibits the distinctive features of a common Inca vessel form, the urpu, including the long, constricted neck, wide body, and flat base.
S.1970.1 Aryballos: repeat bird design (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 feasting vessel form, the aryballos—a long, constricted neck, wide body, and pointed base.
2006.60 Suspension hook
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Iatmul suspension hooks were suspended from the rafters of traditional houses with a cord, and baskets containing food, clothing, and other items were hung from the hooks out of reach of vermin.
1983.W.229 Stirrup-spout vessel: house form (Peru, Chimú)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The stirrup-spout bottle form was the most enduring decorated vessel type on the north coast of Peru. The burnished black vessels were produced through firing in a reducing atmosphere that transforms the mineral-rich clay color into this smooth ebony surface.
1976.W.230 Stirrup-spout bottle with pedestal base (Peru, Chimú-Inka)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The stirrup-spout bottle form was the most enduring decorated vessel type on the north coast of Peru. The burnished black vessels were produced through firing in a reducing atmosphere that transforms the mineral-rich clay color into this smooth ebony surface.
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.
1989.W.234 Aryballos with geometric designs (Peru, Inka)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The most ubiquitous Inca-vessel type was the aryballos, so-called for its similar form to the Greek vessel. The aryballos is identifiable through its long neck and pointed base, which fixed the vessel into the ground. Two side handles and a modeled lug on the upper shoulder allowed for ease in transport by securing a rope through the handles and over the lug to maintain its position on the porter’s back.
1988.59 Stuart Davis, Electric Bulb
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
In 1923 and 1924, Stuart Davis painted a series of images based on common artifacts of modern life-- an eggbeater, a saw, and in Electric Bulb, a light bulb and its c
1976.W.1130 Cup with decorated band (Peru, Chimú-Inka)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The silver cup represents the formal diversity associated with Late Horizon (1400-1532 CE) vessels. This example exhibits the remains of plain weave textile still adhering to the outer metal surface, signifying that it was wrapped at the time of deposition.