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Vessel Depicting a Prisoner with Avian Captors by Moche — VisualArtsDB

Vessel Depicting a Prisoner with Avian Captors

Vessel Depicting a Prisoner with Avian Captors

-100–500

Medium: Ceramic and pigment
Dimensions: 21.6 × 18.7 cm (8 1/2 × 7 3/8 in.)
Genre: earthenware
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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americasmodeling (forming)andeanearly intermediate periodvesselsearthenwarevesselpainting (image making)ritualsceramicsmasksmochicapeoplebirdsinorganic materialArts of the Americassouth americananthropomorphic figureritual sacrificesPre-Columbianmocheandesceramicsacrificeart of the americas

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