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  • Drum, Nasca artist(s), Ceramic, slip, Nasca

Drum

#1623

Nasca artist(s)

100–400 CE

Ceramic, slip

Nassuiaat

Modeled in the shape of a figure with limbs and other details painted on the surface, this drum would have been played with the figure positioned sideways. The being—most likely supernatural—wears a fisherman’s headband and has hair that transforms into snakes on the back. Another snake projects from the chin. The figure’s eyes form the heads of a pair of sharks or orcas, perhaps suggesting that this being can see the world through the eyes of a marine predator.

1623. Drum, Nasca artist(s)

Benjamin Alberti and Brus Rubio Churay

Additional Information

Mittarfiit
H.17 3/4 x Diam. 10 in. (45.1 x 25.4 cm)
Akissat
The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Wielgus, 1964
Ilanngussaq Nummer
1978.412.111

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