Pitt Rivers Museum Anthropology and World Archaology

 

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Stirrup pot

Peru

 

Collected by J. H. Spottiswoode

Given to the Museum in 1921

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Stirrup pot, Peru

This style of black pot with a spout shaped like a horse-rider's stirrup was unique to central and south America. The pots were shaped in a two-part mould, and then decorated with modelled figures of birds – this one is in the form of a bird with a smaller bird at the base of the spout. The pot was made during the pre-Columbian Chimu period (AD 900–1476).

View database record 1921.78.79