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| Type of Object: | Ritual Object |
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| Materials: | Ceramic |
| Measurements: | Size varies |
| Date or Period: | Tiwanaku (A.D. 600 - 1200) |
| Maker: | Tiwananku |
| Designated List Section: | I D Pre-Columbian Ceramics -- Tiwanaku |
| Date of Import Restriction: | 12/07/01 |
| Photograph: | Eduardo Pareja |
| Copyright: | Viceministerio de Cultura |
| Description of Designated List Category Subject to Import Restrictions: | |
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| Decoration: Well-fired (hard), polychrome pottery in black on red or combined black, red, yellow, orange, yellow, gray, brown, and white. Design motifs include human and divine representations, pumas, jaguars, birds, and geometric elements. On many beakers, the design is complex. Plastic decoration includes modeling, incision and applique. Forms: Bowls, plates, urns, vases, lebrillos, flat-bottomed beakers, incense burners (sahumerios), lamps (mechero), effigy jars, portrait vessels, bottles, flat-bottomed bottles, challadores, and some tripod forms. The rim edges of some beakers are scalloped. Size: Varies according to form; storage jars are known up to one meter in height. Identifying Features: Tiwanaku fine wares are typically polychrome and often exhibit complex images of cats, llamas, or personages bearing a staff in each outstretched arm. Beakers and plates often bear an open-mouthed feline or llama adornment along the rim edge. Some decorated jars, (lebrillos) are short-bodied with disproportionately large, out-flaring rims. Styles: Tiwanaku I-V; Qalasasaya, Qeya, Yampara, Mollo, Omereque, Uruquilla, Quillacasa, Yura, Tupuraya, Ciaco, Mojocoya, Lakatambo, Colla, and Presto-Puno,. Linked to the Wari style of Ayacucho, Peru and the earlier Chiripa style of Bolivia. This vessel has been identified as characteristic of the Period I of Tiwanaku. These ceramic pieces are made with geometric and zoomorphic decorations. Its style is related to that of the Pucara and Fluke cultures. This type of vessel was recovered from excavations at the Temple of Kalasasaya. The are thought to have had a ritual function. | |
| Keywords: | |
| jar, painted pottery, Tiwanaku Period, |
