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Jar3060/19

Small stirrup spout jar. Vessel is round with curved bottom, slightly taller than wide. Top is enclosed and has two spouts emerging, connected by a small curved bridge at their midpoints. Spouts, bridge, and base of pot are dark brown; a centre band of red brown is painted with two long necked, tan coloured, standing birds covered in brown spots with extended tail and raised wings.

Culture
Paracas ?
Material
clay and paint
Made in
Ica, Peru ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Pot3060/18

Small stirrup spout jar. Vessel is a rounded cube with curved bottom. Top is enclosed and has a stirrup shaped handle consisting of a narrow spout at back, human-like head at front, and wide, curved bridge connecting the two. The head has a painted face with protruding nose and brown hair with a grey headband. The body is covered in a painted cloak, intricately decorated at back with a sea creature motif, and at sides with black and white checks. The front is a tan square edged with tan, orange and grey motifs. A pendant is painted at top centre.

Culture
Paracas ?
Material
clay and paint
Made in
Ica, Peru ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Dish3060/16

Terracotta dish. Round high sided dish has a deep, rounded base and flares widely at rim. The outside is burnished and painted a light tan at bottom. At midpoint is an encircling motif of faces with large, wide eyes, a small mouth and a straight lock of hair to each side of the face. Above, the pot has two colour blocks of dark orange interspersed with two blocks of tan containing a decorative linear motif in dark brown and orange. The interior is undecorated.

Culture
Paracas ?
Material
clay and paint
Made in
Ica, Peru ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Dish3060/15

Large round, burnished dish; broken and repaired. From a small rounded base, the dish flares up and widely outward into a broad rim. Interior of rim is painted dark orange with a repeating set of tan, white and grey lines that surround two panels of dots and curving lines. The outer rim is painted orange while the interior base and lower portion of the exterior are undecorated. The dish had been in pieces, then glued back together.

Culture
Paracas ?
Material
clay, paint and adhesive
Made in
Ica, Peru ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Vessel3060/14

Large terracotta vessel, broken and repaired. Pot is conical in shape, with a pointed base that widens dramatically to a bulbous shoulder. The small neck perches on the top of the pot, and has an outwardly flaring rim. Above the midpoint the pot is painted with two encircling lines of running birds (?) in black, white and dark brown, with an arrow shaped motif below them. The area around the neck is painted in repeating patterns of linear designs and triangles. Neck and rim have black decoration. The pot had been smashed and glued back together, with several small missing pieces.

Culture
Paracas ?
Material
clay, paint and adhesive
Made in
Ica, Peru ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Spindle3060/13

Small spindle whorl. The long, thin wooden shaft is pointed at both ends, thicker at centre, where it pierces a clay bead. Encircling lines in brown, black and white paint decorate the shaft on both sides of the bead. The bead is long, round, and narrow, decorated with incised lines in geometric shaped, and filled with paint in white and orange.

Culture
Paracas ?
Material
wood, clay and paint
Made in
Ica, Peru ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Spindle3060/12

Small spindle and whorl. The long, thin wooden shaft is pointed at both ends, thicker at centre, where it pierces a clay bead. Small sections of black paint, very worn, decorate the shaft on both sides of the bead. The bead is wide and bulbous pointed at midpoint, with a line of dripping black paint above the midpoint, and a single encircling line of red brown below.

Culture
Paracas ?
Material
wood, clay and paint
Made in
Ica, Peru ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Spindle3060/11

Small spindle and whorl. The long, thin wooden shaft is pointed at both ends, thicker at centre, where it pierces a clay bead. Encircling stripes of white, brown, and red brown paint decorate the shaft on both sides of the bead. The bead is bulbous, painted black, with three groups of concentric circles carved into the clay and painted white.

Culture
Paracas ?
Material
wood, clay and paint
Made in
Ica, Peru ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bowl2990/100

Modified hemispherical greyware bowl decorated on the exterior sides with vertical serpentine motifs in alternating orange-red and cream-coloured paints. The bowl has been completely broken and reconstructed, and there are some small pieces missing.

Culture
Chavin and Paracas
Material
clay, paint and adhesive
Made in
Teojate, Ica, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bowl2990/99

Modified hemispherical greyware bowl with a beveled lip and broad line cross-hatched incised decoration on the exterior sides. There is a thin crack on one side, beginning at the lip and extending down the side.

Culture
Chavin and Paracas
Material
clay
Made in
Teojate, Ica, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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