Prickly Pear (tuna) Fruit Effigy Bottle

1200-500 BCE (Late Initial-Early Horizon)

14.7 cm 21.4 cm

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This vessel depicts the prickly pear (tuna is the Spanish term) fruit common to the Andean region. In this case, it is rendered as an effigy on top of a vessel with a stirrup spout. The “stirrup spout” was one of the most common vessel forms in pre-Columbian Peru and the Andea...

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Ron Messick Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico; purchased by John G. Bourne, Santa Fe, New Mexico, between 1990 and 1999; given to Walters Art Museum, 2013.
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