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Bird effigy bottle with single conical spout, tubular rim and strap handle. Terracotta with geometrical negative décor and cream slip around eyes. Twelve vents in whistle head, prominent beak, and eyes in high relief. Black, cream and red-brown paint. Molded and modeled technique; burnished surface. Breakage repaired.
Stirrup conical spout bottle with flat base. Terracotta with cream and red-brown slip. Painted mythical scene: wrinkle faced warrior deity holds array of weapons, a small iguana figure dressed as a warrior to his front. Above them is a diagonal line with pendant step motifs that ends with serpent heads. Above is a small anthropomorphic warrior holding a rope attached to a ladder-like structure made of five double headed snakes that enclose three spiders. Above is another elaborate warrior-deity whose armament includes a pineapple mace and a sling (-weapons foreign to Moche culture). Surrounding this deity is an arc of radiating bands ending in serpent heads. The stirrup spout is axial-striped with wavy lines in between. Burnished surface. Unbroken.
Stirrup spout black polished effigy bottle with flat base. Molded design of a hawk demon with strombus conch trumpet on back. Moche Phase III spout style. Breakage repaired.
Double spout bottle with flat base and bridge handle. Design of two bird warriors in high relief with a headdress with an arrow motif on top and both bird warriors holding a rope with their beaks. Molded technique; polished surface. Unbroken.
Double spout bottle with bridge handle and flat base. Stylized beans painted on handle and body. Geometrical polychrome designs on cream, gray, black and red-brown paint. Molded manufacture; polished surface. Breakage repaired.
Double spout, compressed ovoid, bottle with flat base. Terracotta with polychrome slips: orange-brown, red, red-brown, cream, gray and black. Moche iconography: one side shows a deity flying over stepped pyramid; other has a deity sitting atop similar pyramid. Both hold divining sticks and background is filled with beans. Moche divination rite in polychrome on typical Wari bottle form. Frogs on bridge handle. Polished surface. Molded and modeled manufacture. Restored.
Portrait head jar with flat base and large vertical tubular spout. Terracotta with cream and brown-red slip, traces of fugitive black spiral markings below eyes. Molded manufacture; burnished surface. Complete ceramic.
Terracotta bird ocarina with opening and two holes on the back. Incised eyes, tail and beak. Partially burnished surface. Breakage repaired.
Terracotta modeled head jar with flat base and incurved rim. Fanged deity faces with incised spirals on cheeks and serpent ear drops. Traces of cream and red-brown residue. Broken and restored.
Stirrup-spout terracotta bottle with ovoid ring base. Three mountain peaks with a painted sacrificed person lying over central one, holding serpent in left hand, cactus in right. Figure below is holding a cactus with his left hand. Lower-front body has a deity figure grabbing a cactus with right hand and a weapon with the left; he is fighting a Moche god who is wearing a feline headdress and is grabbing a weapon with his right hand and pulling his hair with the left. Back design has a representation of three figures: small zoomorphic figure falling down on the left side, a male holding a bag over his right shoulder and a cactus in his left hand, and a Moche god wearing a bird headdress, holding a bag on his back and three spears with his left hand. Breakage restored.