Yuca Root Effigy Bottle

1200-500 BCE (Late Initial-Early Horizon)

14.7 cm 27.5 cm 22.9 cm

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This elegantly modeled “stirrup spout” vessel is formed into the shape of a yuca root (also known as manioc root or cassava), a potato-like vegetable common in the warm lowlands of Peru that is one of the staple foods of the region. The “stirrup spout” was one of the most comm...

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Economos Works of Art; purchased by John G. Bourne, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1995; given to Walters Art Museum, 2013.
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Cupisnique
माध्यम
earthenware

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