Object Notes

The Ulúa River system runs through northwestern Honduras, connecting highland lakes and valleys to the Caribbean Sea. During the Late Classic period (600–900 CE), the Maya traded actively with communities in these regions, and this exchange enriched a regional polychrome ceramic tradition. The Ulua Polychrome vessels presented here mostly originated in the Comayagua or Lake Yojoa regions.

The Ulúa River system runs through northwestern Honduras, connecting highland lakes and valleys to the Caribbean Sea. During the Late Classic period (600–900 CE), the Maya traded actively with communities in these regions, and this exchange enriched a regional polychrome ceramic tradition.

The Cupisnique culture of north coast Peru shared in the flowering of ancient Peruvian arts during the 1st millennium BCE. Its most distinctive portable art forms were dark gray highly burnished sculptural ceramics and small stone ritual containers. These small vessels likely served as ritual paraphernalia.