Beaker with face
Condorhuasi-Alamito artist(s)
500 BCE–500 CE · Stone · Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
This stone beaker features a carved anthropomorphic face with a stepped headdress on the upper half of one side of the vessel. The abstracted face is indicated by the prominent brow ridge and nose with a carved mouth and circles for eyes. The vessel is covered with incised designs featuring bi-cephalic serpent motifs and geometric forms. The shape of this vessel is similar to a type of beaker (kero) known from the Central Andes. The Condorhuasi-Alamito peoples were llama pastoralists in the area that is now the Catamarca province of Argentina. They were skilled artisans in a variety of media, including ceramic, metal, and stone. Archaeological evidence suggests that the Condorhuasi-Alamito peoples maintained extensive long-distance contacts with other regions, including the important site of Tiwanaku, near Lake Titicaca in what is now Bolivia.
- Artist
- Condorhuasi-Alamito artist(s)
- Date
- 500 BCE–500 CE
- Medium
- Stone
- Culture
- Condorhuasi-Alamito
- Department
- Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
- Credit line
- Gift of Claudia Quentin, 2016
