Cleveland Museum of Art
Deer-Headed Figure Vessel
- Date
- 200–850 CE
- Medium
- ceramic, slip
- Culture
- Central Andes, North Coast, Moche people
- Department
- Art of the Americas
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Moche imagery includes an intriguing world of creatures that mingle traits from different realms: beans sprout human legs and race up a spout, jars leap with human feet to pour themselves, and animals wield weapons in two hands. This figure, with a stag’s head but a human’s body, is an example. He is engaged in a coca-leaf chewing ritual and thus holds a bag for the leaves along with a container of powdered lime that is one of the ritual’s key ingredients.
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