Pot
The Huari culture became a dominant power in the central highlands at a time when the Moche were in decline. They interacted with the cultures around them; the highland Tiahuanaco of modern day Bolivia and the Nazca. The sacred pan-Andean feline-headed serpent motif appears on this vessel.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 90/1936/1/4
- Collection Class
- Religion and magic
- Collection Area Region
- S
- Material
- pottery
- Common Name
- pot
- Simple Name
- jar
- Production County
- Southern Sierra
- Production Country
- Peru
- Production Year Low
- 550
- Production Year High
- 900
