Drum
#1623Nasca artist(s)
100–400 CE
Ceramic, slip
Opis
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
DODATKOWE INFORMACJE
- Wymiary
- H.17 3/4 x Diam. 10 in. (45.1 x 25.4 cm)
- Autor
- The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Wielgus, 1964
- Numer katalogowy
- 1978.412.111
