A Moche Stirrup Bottle with a Seated Man, ca. 200 - 400 CE Writing and Manuscripts she is one of six

she is one of six desert painters known as the Numina Sisters who draw on Indigenous knowledge to create their signature dotted paintings

there is a long nose and a vertical line to represent the small mouth

Provenance:  Private New Jersey collection

creating a subtle rhythmic pattern

the fists holding an adze and hoe for work in the afterlife

A Moche Stirrup Bottle with a Seated Man, ca. 200 - 400 CE Writing and Manuscripts she is one of sixThis splendid red brown ceramic stirrup bottle is finely rendered by its artisan creator in the form of a man sitting with knees to chest and arms wrapped around his knees, his head turned slightly to the right, with long straight hair, wide eyes, bushy eyebrows, beaked nose, and large ears, wearing a striped poncho with his feet peeking out beneath, a stirrup spout attached at the back Well before the rise of the Inca state in the fifteenth century,