Severed Head Effigy Vessel
https://clevelandart.org/art/1997.2
The Nasca people were organized politically into small, competing chiefdoms, and warfare was common. This vessel represents a freshly severed human head (probably that of a captured and sacrificed prisoner) with staring eyes, gaping mouth, and blood-red underside. Modeling of...
Artifact
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id
159910
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| contentType |
contentType
object
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| citation |
citation
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| rights |
rights
CC0
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| rightsUri |
rightsUri
CC0
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| language |
language
en
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| wikidata |
wikidata
[
"Q79980276"
]
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| source |
source
import
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| accession |
accession
1997.2
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Source image fields (4)
| thumbnailUrl | https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1997.2/1997.2_web.jpg |
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| largeImageUrl | https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1997.2/1997.2_web.jpg |
| iiifBase | https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1997.2/1997.2_web.jpg |
| imageCount | 1 |
Terms
Culture
Peru, South Coast, Nasca
Technique
earthenware with colored slips
Genre
Ceramic
Department
Art of the Americas
Relations
belongs_to