Bottle in the Form of a Severed Trophy Head

180 B.C./A.D. 500

Nazca
South coast, Peru

On View: Arts of the Americas, Gallery 136

Culture: Nazca
Title: Bottle in the Form of a Severed Trophy Head
Origin: South Coast
Date: 180 BC–500 AD
Medium: Ceramic and pigment
Dimensions: 15.2 × 18.9 cm (6 × 7 7/16 in.)
Credit Line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
Reference Number: 1955.2154

Richard Townsend, “Deciphering the Nazca World: Ceramic Images from Ancient Peru,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 11, 2 (Spring 1985), pg. 130 (ill.).

Zurich, Switzerland, Museum Rietberg Zurich, Nasca: Geheimnisvolle Zeichen im Alten Peru, June 20–October 3, 1999, cat.; traveled to Vienna, Museum fur Volkerkunde, October 29, 1999–January 31, 2000.

Eduard Gaffron (1861–1931), Lima, Peru, from 1892 to 1912, then Berlin, from [History of the Department report (Joanne Behrens, 1985) and correspondence in curatorial file]; by descent to his children Mercedes Gaffron, Berlin then Durham S.C. and Hans Gaffron (1902–1979), Berlin then Chicago [correspondence and documentation of the Gaffron Collection in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1955.

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