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exhibitions > recent: Of Land, Sea, and Sky
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Figural vessel in the form of a Man with a
Bird Miniature vessel in the form of a human figure wearing cylindrical headgear, which forms the vessel mouth, and carrying a bird in a back pack, with its head and beak projecting backward. The earspools of the human figure are hollow. This bird may be a parrot or macaw, which were often sky dieties in ancient America. These types of birds were especially important for their feathers, which were used to decorate elaborate clothing. The Chimu kingdom (900-1400 AD) occupied seven hundred square miles on the north coast of Peru. Chimu pottery was mostly mass produced mold made blackware. Reduction firing produced the black surface so common in Chimu ceramics. |
