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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: | Tiwanaku |
| 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 finewares 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, outflaring 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. Typically decorated with zoomorphic and bird like designs, it is believed that the function of this piece was ritual. This objects was used during the classic and subsequent Tiwanaku (Periods IV and V). | |
| Keywords: | |
| lamp, painted pottery, Tiwanaku Period, |
