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| Type of Object: | Ritual Object |
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| Materials: | Ceramic |
| Measurements: | 7 cm. height, 12 cm. diameter |
| 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: | Viceministerio de Cultura |
| 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. These ritual objects were used extensively throughout the Tiwanaku culture, especially during the Classic period (IV Period). Decorated with ceramic, the design are usually geometric or zoomorphic, although the smallest examples are without decoration. | |
| Keywords: | |
| bowl, painted pottery, red polished, Tiwanaku, |
