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).
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database record 1921.78.79
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