Double Spouted Vessel

The design on this pot probably represents the Nasca supreme deity. It takes the form of a highly stylized human figure wearing a distinctive face mask with feline features.The Nasca people lived in the southern coastal valleys of Peru. They made very distinctive pottery in which the designs were outlined in black and then filled in with slip paints. Slips are washes of very fine clay coloured with naturally occurring, earthy coloured, mineral pigments. The Nasca took slip painting to a high art and as many as a dozen subtly different shades of colour can be found on one vessel.