Illustrations of Artifact Categories Subject to U.S. Import Restriction

	Type of Object:	Vessel
	Material:	Ceramic
	Measurements:	Up to 30 cm. in height.
	Date or Period:	500-900 A.D.
	Maker:	Cajamarca
	Designated List Category:	IIII Cajamarca Ceramics
	Date of Import Restriction:	06/11/1997
	Photograph:	National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of Peru
	Copyright :	National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of Peru

 

Description of Designated List Category Subject to Import Restrictions:
Date: 500-900 A.D. Decoration consists of slip painting with geometric designs, including stepped triangles, circles, lines, dots, and rows of volutes. They may include stylized birds, felines, camelids, batrachians, and serpents. Spiral figures may include a step-fret motif in the base of the bowls. Shapes include pedestal base bowls, tripod bowls, bottles with annular ring base, goblets, spoons with modeled handles, bowls with carinated edges.
Keywords:
black, bowls, Cajamarca, ceramic, container, painted pottery, pottery, Pre-Columbian Ceramics, red, ring-base, white,