unknown Nasca
Primary
Bowl with Butter Bean Imagery
100 BCE - 750 CE
Clay
2 7/16 in. x 6 11/16 in. x 6 11/16 in. (6.25 cm x 17 cm x 17 cm)
Bryn Mawr College
Accession Number:
69.1.261
Other Number(s):
E27 (Canaday No.)
Geography:
South America, Peru
Classification:
Containers and Vessels; Vessels; Bowls
Culture/Nationality:
Nasca
Collection:
Ward M. Canaday Collection
Keywords
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This object has the following keywords:
- bean - General term for any edible seed of various species in several genera of the family Fabaceae.
- bowls - Rounded, cuplike, hollow parts of objects, such as the body of a stemmed vessel or the part of a pipe in which tobacco is burned.
- bowls - Rounded vessels that are generally wider than they are high, usually hemispherical or nearly so. A bowl may have a spreading base or foot ring and sometimes two handles or a cover. Distinguished from a cup, which is rather deep than wide.
- Nasca
- Peruvian - Of or belonging to the nation of Peru or its people.
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Traces of Greatness: Selections from the Pre-Columbian Collection Bryn Mawr College , Jun 30, 2014 – Sep 11, 2014
Comparanda List
The following Comparanda exist for this object:
- "Field Museum Anthopological Collections." (Accessed August 4, 2020): https://collections-anthropology.fieldmuseum.org/. Accession Number: 170659.
- "Florida State University Musem of Fine Arts: Collections." (Accessed August 14, 2020): Florida State University of Fine Arts, https://mofa.fsu.edu/learning-resources/collections/. Accession No.: 986.
Related Bibliography List
The following Related Bibliography exist for this object:
- Donald A. Proulx, A Sourcebook of Nasca Ceramic Iconography (Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 2006), 165-166. Figure Number: 5.236
- George B. Martin-Vegue, "Nazca Pottery at Florida State University." American Journal of Archaeology 53, no. 4 (October 1949 - December 1949): 345-354.
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