A large Moche Stirrup Bottle, Moche IV, ca. 500 - 700 CE Amulets - Assimilation the fragmentary body is decorated

the fragmentary body is decorated in umber on buff in two registers separated by broad stripes of dark paint with a frieze of grazing wild goats with high curving horns

Claremont CA

Such models were placed in ancient Egyptian tombs during the Old Kingdom period to symbolically provide sustenance to the deceased in the afterlife

University of the Sunshine Coast

A large Moche Stirrup Bottle, Moche IV, ca. 500 - 700 CE Amulets - Assimilation the fragmentary body is decoratedThe large bottle with globular body, tall neck, and large loop handle, the upper body decorated with two charming red brown long necked birds over cream ground, bisected by a red border, the lower body painted brown. Andean societies thought of birds as precious resources; there was a roaring trade, for example, in parrot and macaw feathers from the Amazon Basin to the Andes so that they could adorn the garments of elites. Many birds appear in ancient