A large Moche Stirrup Bottle, Moche IV, ca. 500 - 700 CE Vessels - Stone Oxford: Griffith Institute

Oxford: Griffith Institute

and minor chips to face and body

Note: From the Israeli Museum: “small head pendants

the body well modeled

each box features a two-part frame made from PP board

A large Moche Stirrup Bottle, Moche IV, ca. 500 - 700 CE Vessels - Stone Oxford: Griffith InstituteThe large bottle with globular body, tall neck, and large loop handle, the upper body decorated with two charming red brown long necked birds over cream ground, bisected by a red border, the lower body painted brown. Andean societies thought of birds as precious resources; there was a roaring trade, for example, in parrot and macaw feathers from the Amazon Basin to the Andes so that they could adorn the garments of elites. Many birds appear in ancient