Killer Whale Effigy Vessel

CultureNasca
Titles
  • Killer Whale Effigy Vessel
Date100 BC–700 AD
PlacePeru
MediumEarthenware with slip
Dimensions4 3/4 × 8 1/2 × 3 1/8 in. (12.1 × 21.6 × 7.9 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Shell Oil Company Foundation at "One Great Night in November, 1997"
Object number97.469
Non exposé

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Provenance[Sotheby's, New York, May 17, 1994, lot # 23]; [David Bernstein, New York, 1994–1997]; purchased by MFAH, 1997.
Exhibition History“Fangs, Feathers, and Fins: Sacred Creatures in Ancient American Art,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 15, 2014–March 22, 2015.

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