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Source Description
This vessel was made by an artist of the Chimú Empire of Peru’s north coast. In the art of the Moche, an earlier culture in the region, the deer had complex symbolism related to ritual combat and the capture of prisoners. A memory of that symbolism may survive here in the binding of the deer’s feet.
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Document identity
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294067
label
Bound Deer Effigy Vessel
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294067
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object
title
Bound Deer Effigy Vessel
description
This vessel was made by an artist of the Chimú Empire of Peru’s north coast. In the art of the Moche, an earlier culture in the region, the deer had complex symbolism related to ritual combat and the capture of prisoners. A memory of that symbolism may survive here in the binding of the deer’s feet.
date
1000–1460s
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CC0
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CC0
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en
wikidata
Q60750186
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Ceramic
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1
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dimensionsRaw
Overall: 18.7 x 24 x 13 cm (7 3/8 x 9 7/16 x 5 1/8 in.)
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Andes, North Coast, Chimú people
accession
2017.59
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Ceramic
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Bound Deer Effigy Vessel, 1000–1460s. Andes, North Coast, Chimú people. Ceramic; overall: 18.7 x 24 x 13 cm (7 3/8 x 9 7/16 x 5 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 2017.59
collection
AA - Andes
didYouKnow
Chimú potters fired their vessels in an atmosphere of reduced oxygen to achieve a uniform black surface.
citations
citation
Lapiner, Alan C.<em> Pre-Columbian Art of South America. </em>New York: H.N. Abrams, 1976.
page_number
p. 268, figure 602 right
citation
Princeton University, and Jay I. Kislak Reference Collection (Library of Congress).<em> In Celebration: Works of Art from the Collections of Princeton Alumni and Friends of the Art Museum, Princeton University.</em> [Princeton, N.J.]: The Museum, 1997.
page_number
Fig. 107
creditline
Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
galleryDonorText
Jon A. Lindseth and Virginia M. Lindseth, PhD, Galleries of the Ancient Americas
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2026-05-29 08:52:28.559000
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294067
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Art of the Americas
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AA - Andes
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Ceramic
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