Bottle

Object/Artifact

Purdue University Galleries

Name/Title

Bottle

Entry/Object ID

2011.02.01

Description

red clay, ceramic bottle in shape of human-like feline from Tiahuanacan, central coast of Peru

Acquisition

Accession

2011.02

Source or Donor

Mary Jo Sparrow, Frederick T. Sparrow

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Region

Central Coast, Peru, Central Andes

Continent

South America

Culture/Tribe

Tiahuanacan

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Bottle

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Vessel

Nomenclature Class

Containers

Nomenclature Category

Category 07: Distribution & Transportation Objects

Dimensions

Height

9 in

Width

5-1/2 in

Material

Clay

Color

Red, Black

Web Links and URLs

Wikipedia

Provenance

Provenance Detail

Source Notes

Role

Information provided by source.

Notes

Purchased by Mary Jo Sparrow at the Denver Art Museum in the early 1960s when the museum was selling original Pre-Columbian pieces; bears the number 4-23 B.