The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of May 8, 2026

A dark brown ceramic vessel depicts a bird facing left, standing on a horizontal human head. The bird features a curved red neck, yellow hooked beak, and white and black patterned wings. Below, the head's yellow face has closed eyes and a red chin with white teeth. A bridge handle, connecting the bird's back to a straight spout, rises from the rear.

Vessel with Condor and Human Head

400–1000

Peru, Tiwanaku style

pottery
Overall: 10.4 x 5.5 x 10.5 cm (4 1/8 x 2 3/16 x 4 1/8 in.)
The Norweb Collection 1949.558
Location: Not on view
  • ?-1949
    Raymond Henry Norweb [1894-1983] and Emery May Holden Norweb [1895-1984], Cleveland OH, 1949, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1949
    The Cleveland Museum of Art
  • Foote, Helen. "Early Peruvian Pottery." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 37, no. 3 (March 1950): 54-56. Reproduced: p. 52; Mentioned: p. 55 www.jstor.org
  • Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art: November 9, 1945- January 6, 1946. "Art of the Americas."
    Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art: November 10- December 24, 1939. "Exhibition of Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico, Central America and Peru."
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