Stirrup Vessel with Figure
This “stirrup-spout” vessel shows a human or humanlike figure sprawled on the top of the container, in the process of cutting off his own head. Human sacrifice was a ritual practice in ancient Peru, and it seems that some individuals may have even offered their own lives for w...
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Economos Works of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Private collection, 1991, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 2009, by gift.
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