Handled jar
Collected before 1860, this pot was taken from a burial site. Handled jars are common vessels but their function beyond being a water container is unclear. Two key motifs are depicted, both of which relate to the sea and are indicators of great social and political change.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- A611
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Containers
- Collection Area Region
- S
- Material
- blackware pottery
- Common Name
- handled jar
- Simple Name
- handled jar
- Production Town
- near Trujillo
- Production County
- North coast
- Production Country
- Peru
- Production Year Low
- 1470
- Production Year High
- 1532