DepartmentLatin America
Oculate Being/ Sacrificer jar
NameJar
CultureNazca
Date200 BCE-600CE
Place madePeru, South America
MediumCeramic, slip
Dimensions6 13/16 × 3 9/16 in. (17.25 × 9 cm)
Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Mrs. Eloisa Brown Jones, A.1972.15.6
Object numberA.1972.15.6
DescriptionConstricted slightly toward neck but not beaker shape. Bottom is slightly convex. Painted, light and dark red, brown and orange, white, in design of masked god whose body stretches around pot, holds prisoner's skull.
mid 20th-late 20th Century
200 BCE-600 CE
Artist not recorded
Artist not recorded
ca. 1500 (probably)