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Llama Vessel
Llama Vessel
c. 200–550
Peru, North Coast, Moche style
(50-800)
Earthenware with colored slips
Overall: 17.8 x 13.2 x 23.1 cm (7 x 5 3/16 x 9 1/8 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1990.128
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It is not clear whether the llama's appearance in Moche art is explained by its importance as a sacrificial animal; as a source of meat, fertilizer, and wool; or as the Andes' only burden-bearing beast, as this vessel shows. It also may be important that llamas are natives of the mountains, where seasonal rains charge the fresh-water rivers that flow down to the desert coast and make life possible.
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