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Larco Museum - Visible Storage, Lima, Peru

Most of the world’s museums possess major reserves, access to which is restricted. Since it was established in 1926, the Museo Larco storerooms have been the only ones in Peru – and among the few anywhere in the world - open to the general public.

In what is a unique experience, visitors can wander through these storerooms between rows of shelving containing 30,000 meticulously catalogued ancient pottery artifacts.

Entering the Visible Storage

Storage Gallery
Here the visitors have the opportunity to view the museum's entire collection of classified archaeological objects.


Tubers and fruits
Moche art is well known for its apparent pictorial veracity in ceramic and architectural imagery. Specific kinds of agricultural produce, particular fruit, and certain animals appear often, but whether they were selected for representation because of their nutritional values or symbolic qualities is unknown. Moche imagery rarely shows images connected with sumptuous feasting. The images on ceramic vessels do not contain images of bacchanalian events, no images of tables piled with platters of food at feasts or festivals. Rather than eating food, humans, zoomorphic and supernatural beings are shown handling an array of cups and vessels in various events and rituals.

Top shelf, from left to right:

  1. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing four cucumbers. ML006651 - Museo Larco.
  2. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing two cucumbers. ML006652 - Museo Larco.
  3. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing two fruits (cucumber). ML006654 - Museo Larco.
  4. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing four cucumbers. ML006656 - Museo Larco.
  5. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle rattle representing four cucumbers. ML006658 - Museo Larco.
  6. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing two cucumbers. ML006660 - Museo Larco.

Middle shelf:

  1. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing four caiguas. ML006637 - Museo Larco.
  2. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing cucumbers. ML006639 - Museo Larco.
  3. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing yuccas. ML006641 - Museo Larco.
  4. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing tying of yuccas. ML013648 - Museo Larco.
  5. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing tubers, yuccas or cassava. This sculptural ceramic bottle represents yucca or cassava (Manihot esculenta). Yucca is a shrub whose root is edible and has a high nutritional value. Masato or chicha de yuca is made from the fermented root. ML006643 - Museo Larco.
  6. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing four caiguas. ML006645 - Museo Larco.

Bottom shelf:

  1. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing fruit (soursop). ML006625 - Museo Larco.
  2. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing fruit (soursop). ML006626 - Museo Larco.
  3. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing four fruits (lucuma). ML006628 - Museo Larco.

Cucumbers
From left to right:

  1. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing six cucumbers. ML006667 - Museo Larco.
  2. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing four cucumbers. ML006669 - Museo Larco.
  3. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing three cucumbers. ML006671 - Museo Larco.
  4. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing two cucumbers. ML006673 - Museo Larco.
  5. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing cucumber. ML006674 - Museo Larco.
  6. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing two cucumbers. ML006675 - Museo Larco.

Prisoners sitting naked with a rope around their neck
Human sacrifice played a significant part in Moche religious practices. While some scholars argue that the sacrificial victims were the losers of ritual battles among local elites, others suggest that the sacrificial victims were warriors captured in territorial battles between the Moche and other nearby societies. The sacrifices may have been associated with rites of ancestral renewal and agricultural fertility.

  1. Sculptural jug depicting a seated naked prisoner, with his hands tied behind his back and a rope around his neck. ML002053 - Museo Larco.
  2. Sculptural jug depicting a seated naked prisoner, with his hands tied behind his back and a rope around his neck. ML002055 - Museo Larco.
  3. Sculptural jug depicting a seated naked prisoner, with his hands tied behind his back, shirt, body paint on his legs and rope around his neck. ML002057 - Museo Larco.
  4. Sculptural jug depicting a naked prisoner sitting with his hands tied behind his back, ears pierced and noose around his neck. ML002058 - Museo Larco.
  5. Sculptural jug depicting a naked prisoner sitting with a rope around his neck, his hands tied behind his back, a feline headdress, tubular earmuffs and a loincloth. ML002059 - Museo Larco.
  6. Sculptural jug depicting a naked prisoner sitting with rope around his neck and hands tied behind his back. ML002060 - Museo Larco.
  7. Sculptural jug depicting a naked prisoner sitting with rope around his neck and hands tied behind his back. ML002063 - Museo Larco.
  8. Sculptural jug depicting a naked prisoner sitting with rope around his neck and hands tied behind his back. ML002061 - Museo Larco.

Deer hunting
One of the most frequently represented rituals in Mochica pottery is the “deer hunt”. The hunters are members of the Mochica nobility, who are seen wearing fine clothing, magnificent headdresses with metal adornments, large ear ornaments and breastplates. They are carrying weapons such as clubs, lances, darts and spear throwers. The way in which these individuals are dressed indicates that this hunt was ceremonial in nature.

  1. Bottle neck with stirrup handle with representation of hunter characters holding maces with feline headdress, half-moon frontal, circular earflaps, pectoral, body paint, tunic and wristbands. Representation of deer. ML002158 - Museo Larco.
  2. Bottle neck with side handle with representation of a hunter holding a club, with a bird headdress, wristbands and a loincloth. Hunter holding stolic with half-moon headdress and loincloth. Representation of deer and geometric reticulated designs. ML002160 - Museo Larco.
  3. Bottle neck with side handle with representation of hunter characters holding stolic and quadrangular shield, with headdress of human head, crescent and two plumes, tubular earflaps, nose ring, necklace of circular beads, tunic, body painting, belt and hip protector with representation of head of feline. Representation of deer pierced by darts. ML002162 - Museo Larco.
  4. Bottle neck with stirrup handle with representation of hunters holding mallets, with feline headdress, half-moon forehead, circular earflaps, pectoral, loincloth and wristbands. Representation of deer. ML002164 - Museo Larco.
  5. Bottle neck with side handle with representation of hunters holding stolic, with feline headdress, half-moon frontal, face paint, circular earmuffs, tunic, belt and wristbands. Representation of deer pierced by darts. ML002166 - Museo Larco.

Musical instruments
Here we find individuals playing different musical instruments and among these we see maichiles with which the rhythm was set. Flutes, pan flutes, drums, tambourines, straight horns, back horns and pututos. They had musical ensembles made up of several musicians, usually with flutes, antaras and drums.

  1. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a character with circular earflaps, face paint, cape and tunic. ML002211 - Museo Larco.
  2. Bottle neck with tubular bridge handle and protome representing a character playing pututo, with a baton head headdress, circular earmuffs, shirt and loincloth. Representation of an animal with features of a feline, snake and bird. ML002213 - Museo Larco.
  3. Bottle neck with tubular bridge handle and protome representing a character holding a sea snail (strombus / pututo), with circular earrings, face and body paint, shirt, loincloth, bag on the back and bag in the left hand. ML002219 - Museo Larco.
  4. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a lying anthropomorphic character with a peanut body playing a quena, with facial and body paint. ML002214 - Museo Larco.
  5. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a character playing a quena with a turban, circular ear muffs, crossed cape and tunic. ML002212 - Museo Larco.
  6. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing character holding sea snail (strombus / pututo), with facial paint with geometric designs, circular earrings and tunic. ML002217 - Museo Larco.

Goblins
The sculptures of little big-eyed men with children in their arms represent the goblins, a very widespread legend among the Indians. The goblin is a small man with big eyes who whistles at night to attract the children to steal them, hence in all these huacos the goblin appears whistling and carrying the child in his arms.

  1. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing the dead carrying a deer on his back, with a headdress, cape and hood, shirt with stepped designs and a loincloth. Painted decoration. ML002282 - Museo Larco.
  2. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a skinned dead man carrying deer on his back, with a plume headdress, hood, cape and shirt. ML002284 - Museo Larco.
  3. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing the dead carrying a deer on his back, with a plume headdress, a hooded cape and a shirt with geometric designs. ML002286 - Museo Larco.
  4. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a dead man holding a canchero with a plume headdress, a cape with a hood, a shirt with geometric designs, a loincloth and a bulge on the back. ML002285 - Museo Larco.
  5. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a skinned dead man sitting carrying deer on his back, with a shirt and loincloth. ML002288 - Museo Larco.
  6. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a skinned dead man seated with a bird headdress, circular earflaps, cape and tunic. ML002289 - Museo Larco.

Individuals washing their heads.
From left to right:

  1. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing female anthropomorphic character with supernatural features sitting, de-lousing her hair, with feline fangs, circular earflaps, necklace, cape, tunic and wristbands, and three children on the body. ML002306 - Museo Larco.
  2. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a guarding character lying down with a hood, shirt and loincloth. ML002307 - Museo Larco.
  3. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing female anthropomorphic character with supernatural features sitting, de-lousing her hair, with feline fangs, with circular earflaps, necklace, cape, tunic, wristbands and three children on the body. ML002308 - Museo Larco.
  4. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing female anthropomorphic character with supernatural features sitting, de-lousing her hair, with feline fangs, circular earflaps, necklace, cape, tunic, wristbands and three children on the body. ML002309 - Museo Larco.
  5. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing female anthropomorphic character with supernatural features sitting, de-lousing her hair, with feline fangs, circular earflaps, necklace, cape, tunic, wristbands and three lice on her body. ML002310 - Museo Larco.
  6. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing female anthropomorphic character with supernatural features sitting, de-lousing her hair, with feline fangs, tubular earflaps, necklace, cape, tunic and two lice on her body. ML002311 - Museo Larco.
  7. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing female anthropomorphic character with supernatural features sitting, de-lousing her hair, with feline fangs, circular earflaps, necklace, cape, tunic, wristbands and three children on the body. ML002312 - Museo Larco.

Skinned dead
The three ways the Moche practiced human sacrifice were decapitation, rolling off a cliff/mountain, and being skinned alive.

  1. Sculptural jug representing a skinned dead character carrying deer on his back, with a turban, circular earmuffs, pectoral and shirt. ML001890 - Museo Larco.
  2. Double-bodied bottle with strapped bridge handle and whistle representing a skinned dead character with a cape and tunic. ML012956 - Museo Larco.
  3. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle whistler representing dead man sitting on rolled blanket, with turban, circular earmuffs, pectoral, tunic, wristbands and belt. ML012984 - Museo Larco.
  4. Sculptural jug representing a seated skinned character, with face paint, cape, bag on the back, tunic and body paint. ML012960 - Museo Larco.
  5. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a seated skinned character, with a hood and cape, a shirt with geometric designs, a loincloth and body paint. ML012958 - Museo Larco.
  6. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a seated character with a plumed headdress, hood, cape and shirt. ML012972 - Museo Larco.

Running birds
One of the most frequent themes in Mochica art is that of the race of human beings or anthropomorphic beings with animal features, carrying bags with pallares and toothpicks in their hands. In this race, runners participate in their best dresses, and wear elaborate head decorations.

  1. Matrix of a sculptural bottle neck with side handle representing anthropomorphic character (running bird) with a bird face and wings, feline headdress, belt and loincloth. ML002349 - Museo Larco.
  2. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing anthropomorphic character (running bird) sitting with a bird face, feline headdress, facial paint, circular earflaps, pectoral with snake designs, skirt with geometric designs and wristbands. ML002346 - Museo Larco.
  3. Pictorial bottle neck with side handle with representation of a rope around the neck and anthropomorphic runners (running birds) with the head, wings and tail of a bird, human body, holding bags with pallares. Runner with feline headdress, trapezoidal frontal, face and body paint and loincloth. Runner with feline headdress, circular frontal, face and body paint and loincloth. Representation of pallares and stepped geometric designs. ML002350 - Museo Larco.
  4. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a seated anthropomorphic character (runner) with a deer's head, a feline headdress, a shirt with deer spot designs and a loincloth. Representation of plants and cacti. ML002351 - Museo Larco.
  5. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a seated anthropomorphic character (running bird), with a bird face, feline headdress, pectoral with snake designs, skirt, body paint on the legs and wristbands. ML002352 - Museo Larco.
  6. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing anthropomorphic character (running bird) seated with bird head and wings, feline headdress with circular front, facial and body paint, wristbands, pectoral, shirt and loincloth with designs. ML002353 - Museo Larco.

Running birds
One of the most characteristic decoration is the circular front ornament. Front ornaments of copper and copper alloys, gold and silver; golden bird beaks; Spondylus shell bead pectoral; sculptural ceramic representing a running bird.

  1. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a seated character (runner) with feline headdress and half-moon frontal, tubular earmuffs, wristbands and loincloth. ML002354 - Museo Larco.
  2. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing anthropomorphic character (running bird) seated with bird head and wings, feline headdress with circular front, facial and body paint, wristbands, pectoral, shirt and loincloth with designs. ML002353 - Museo Larco.
  3. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a feline headdress with a circular front, used by the running characters. ML002355 - Museo Larco.

Human beings carrying bags with pallares
In the Moche era it was the most widespread crop, since it requires short periods of irrigation. In tropical conditions, up to four crops a year were obtained.

  1. Pictorial bottle neck with stirrup handle with representation of thirteen runners holding bags with pallares and seated character holding bowl. Runners with animal headdress, trapezoidal and circular frontal, face paint, loincloth and body paint. Character with animal headdress, face paint and shirt. Representation of plants and snakes on the body of the vessel and on the stirrup handle neck. ML002371 - Museo Larco.
  2. Pictorial bottle neck with stirrup handle with representation of four runners holding bags containing pallares. Two runners with feline headdress with trapezoidal front, face and body paint, wristbands, belt and loincloth. Two runners with turban and half-moon headband, face and body paint, wristbands, belt and loincloth. ML002373 - Museo Larco.

Two-color pallares
Many pallares have been represented in this Mochica ceramic bottles. The pallar (Phaseolus lunatus) is a legume domesticated in the Andes around 2000 BCE and it is one of the basic foods on the Peruvian coast. The pallar is one of the seeds that allows the process of germination and reproduction to be easily observed, and as such, it symbolically expresses the ability to develop and reproduce. In Peru, there are pallares that grow with black spots, which show different shapes like those represented here, and are known as “pallares oracles” since they are part of decipherment ceremonies by Mochica divinities.

  1. Pictorial bottle neck with stirrup handle with representation of pallares. ML002472 - Museo Larco.
  2. Pictorial bottle neck with stirrup handle with representation of pallares. ML002474 - Museo Larco.
  3. Pictorial bottle neck with stirrup handle with representation of pallares. ML002476 - Museo Larco.

Foxes
The Moche people believed the fox to be a warrior that would use his mind to fight. The fox would not ever use physical attack, only mental.

  1. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing fox head with turban. ML002555 - Museo Larco.
  2. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing fox head with turban with geometric designs of triangles and tubular earflaps. ML002556 - Museo Larco.
  3. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing fox head with turban with geometric triangle designs. ML002558 - Museo Larco.
  4. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing fox head with turban with geometric designs and facial paint. ML002559 - Museo Larco.
  5. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing fox head with turban. ML002560 - Museo Larco.
  6. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing fox head with turban and face paint. ML002561 - Museo Larco.

Foxes
From left to right:

  1. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing fox head with turban and face paint. ML002561 - Museo Larco.
  2. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing fox head with turban with geometric designs, tubular earflaps and face paint. ML002563 - Museo Larco.
  3. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing fox head with snail headdress and geometric designs and face paint. ML002565 - Museo Larco.

Anthropomorphic characters
The anthropomorphic pottery of the Mochicans is particularly well known - the mythological and social themes which it expresses might be considered as the peak of this art genre in the whole civilisation of Peru.

  1. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing an anthropomorphic character with a human body, head and tail of a seated deer holding a pallar, with a half-moon and stepped headdress, circular earflaps, hair tied in two strands, pectoral, shirt and loincloth. ML002568 - Museo Larco.
  2. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing anthropomorphic character with human body and feline head sitting holding container, with shirt with geometric designs, belt, wristbands and loincloth. ML002569 - Museo Larco.
  3. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing anthropomorphic character with human body and fox head sitting holding container, with shirt with geometric designs, wristbands, belt and loincloth. ML002570 - Museo Larco.
  4. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing anthropomorphic character with human body, head and tail of a seated feline holding container, with face paint, necklace, shirt with geometric designs, wristbands, belt and loincloth. ML002571 - Museo Larco.
  5. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing seated anthropomorphic runner with human body and feline head, feline headdress and circular frontal, with tubular earflaps, hair tied in two strands, wristbands, belt and loincloth. ML002573 - Museo Larco.

Anthropomorphic characters
From left to right:

  1. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle whistler representing anthropomorphic character with human body and fox head sitting holding container, with face paint, belt, wristbands and loincloth. ML002574 - Museo Larco.
  2. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing anthropomorphic character with human body and feline head sitting holding container, with facial paint, wristbands, belt and tunic with geometric designs. ML002575 - Museo Larco.
  3. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing anthropomorphic character with human body, head and tail of a sitting fox holding container, with face paint, pectoral, wristbands, shirt with geometric designs, belt and loincloth. ML002576 - Museo Larco.
  4. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing anthropomorphic character with human body, head and tail of a fox, sitting holding container, with tunic with geometric designs, wristbands, belt and hip protector. ML002577 - Museo Larco.
  5. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing seated anthropomorphic character with human body and deer head, cape and tunic. ML002578 - Museo Larco.
  6. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing anthropomorphic character with human body and fox head sitting holding container, with face paint, shirt with geometric designs, wristbands, belt and loincloth. ML002579 - Museo Larco.

Coca consumption
Coca is and was usually be taken raw in cake form or in a mixture on the tip of a stick. The latter method is the one the Moche are thought to have used most often. Some of the Moche ceramic pieces are fairly distinct in their portrayal of, at least, a person partaking of some herb by the methods commonly used today for coca. Coca could have supplied them with endurance for working in the high altitude mountains, the dry deserts, and for working on the heavy building jobs the people were assigned.

  1. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing seated character holding container with headdress, circular earflaps, necklace, wristbands and loincloth. ML002545 - Museo Larco.
  2. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a seated character with a turban with decoration of pallares and triangular geometric designs, tubular earflaps, cape and tunic with geometric designs. ML002546 - Museo Larco.
  3. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a seated character holding a container, with a turban, tubular earflaps and tunic. ML002550 - Museo Larco.
  4. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a seated character, with a turban with decoration of pallares and triangular geometric designs, tubular earflaps, cape and tunic with geometric designs. ML002547 - Museo Larco.
  5. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a seated character holding a container, chewing coca (chacchando), carrying an object and a club, with a turban, cape and tunic with geometric designs on the sleeves. ML002549 - Museo Larco.
  6. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a seated character holding a container, chewing coca (chacchando), with a two-pointed headdress, facial paint with geometric wave designs, hair tied in two strands, tunic with geometric designs, wristbands, belt and hip protector. ML002548 - Museo Larco.
  7. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a seated character holding container and baton, chewing coca (chacchando), with a turban with plumes, trapezoidal earrings, a cape and tunic with geometric designs on the sleeves. ML002551 - Museo Larco.

Coca consumption
From left to right:

  1. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a seated character holding a container, chewing coca (chacchando), with a two-pointed headdress, facial paint with geometric wave designs, hair tied in two strands, tunic with geometric designs, wristbands, belt and hip protector. ML002548 - Museo Larco.
  2. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a seated character holding container and baton, chewing coca (chacchando), with a turban with plumes, trapezoidal earrings, a cape and tunic with geometric designs on the sleeves. ML002551 - Museo Larco.
  3. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a seated character holding a bundle, with a baton-headed headdress, and a tunic. ML002552 - Museo Larco.
  4. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a seated character holding a container, chewing coca (chacchando), with a turban, pierced ears, cape and tunic. ML002553 - Museo Larco.
  5. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a seated character holding a container, with a feline headdress and lateral appendages, circular earflaps, pectoral, wristbands and loincloth. ML002554 - Museo Larco.
  6. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing seated anthropomorphic character holding bag with bird wings, helmet, face paint and tunic. ML002792 - Museo Larco.

Healing and shamanism
The Moche used shamanistic doctors, now called curanderos, for physical and spiritual healing. Religious rites would have included, among other things, the installing of or calling for aid from the spirit of an animal. The specific spirit would have been selected according the properties that were possessed by its natural counterpart. In addition, herbs and other medical practices involved with the shaman's job would have had spiritual or otherworldly connotations. These curanderos may also have been responsible for the "surgical" practice the Moche are often credited with.

  1. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a seated character, with a cape with geometric designs of lines, a necklace and a tunic with geometric designs of circles. ML002653 - Museo Larco.
  2. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a seated character holding a cut of Saint Peter, with a cape with geometric line designs, collar and tunic. ML002654 - Museo Larco.
  3. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a seated character holding an object, with a cape, necklace and tunic. ML002655 - Museo Larco.
  4. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a seated character holding an object, with a cape, necklace and tunic. ML002656 - Museo Larco.
  5. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a seated character holding objects, with a cape with geometric line designs, necklace and tunic. ML002657 - Museo Larco.
  6. Sculptural pitcher representing a character with a cape, circular earflaps, necklace and tunic. ML002658 - Museo Larco.
  7. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a seated character holding objects, with a cape, necklace and tunic. ML002659 - Museo Larco.

Healing and shamanism
From left to right:

  1. Sculptural pitcher representing a character with a cape, circular earflaps, necklace and tunic. ML002658 - Museo Larco.
  2. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a seated character holding objects, with a cape, necklace and tunic. ML002659 - Museo Larco.
  3. Sculptural pitcher representing a character holding a rattle, with a cape with geometric line designs, a feline headdress, circular earmuffs, wristbands and a tunic. ML002660 - Museo Larco.
  4. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a seated character holding objects, with a cape, necklace, tunic and belt. ML002661 - Museo Larco.
  5. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a seated character with his eyes closed holding a San Pedro cactus, with a cape, circular earflaps, pectoral and tunic, accompanied by an infant. ML012903 - Museo Larco.
  6. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a seated character with a blanket over his head, circular earmuffs, facial paint, pectoral and tunic, whistling and accompanied by a child lying down and covered with a blanket; representation of a box next to the woman. ML012891 - Museo Larco.
  7. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a seated woman, with blanket on her head, face paint, circular bead necklace, braids, tunic and belt, holding San Pedro cactus. ML012887 - Museo Larco.

Healing and shamanism

  1. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a seated character (with turban, tubular earmuffs and tunic) tending to the body of a woman, accompanied by two women. Representation of two tied deer, bowls and a reticulated bag. ML002645 - Museo Larco.

Healing and shamanism
From left to right:

  1. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a seated character (with turban, tubular earmuffs and tunic) tending to the body of a woman, accompanied by two women. Representation of two tied deer, bowls and a reticulated bag. ML002645 - Museo Larco.
  2. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a seated character (with turban, necklace of circular beads, shirt with stepped designs and skirt with circle designs) attending to a male body. ML002646 - Museo Larco.
  3. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a seated character (with a feline headdress, circular earmuffs, face paint, necklace, belt, skirt, body paint and wristbands) tending to the body of a woman. ML002647 - Museo Larco.

Healing and shamanism
From left to right:

  1. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a seated character (with a feline headdress, circular earmuffs, face paint, necklace, belt, skirt, body paint and wristbands) tending to the body of a woman. ML002647 - Museo Larco.
  2. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a seated character (with turban, tubular earmuffs, whip hanging from the neck, shirt with tiered designs and skirt) tending to the body of a woman. ML002648 - Museo Larco.
  3. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a character sitting next to a bag, with a turban, tubular earmuffs, a whip hanging from the neck, a shirt with tiered designs, a belt and a skirt. ML002651 - Museo Larco.

Healing and shamanism
From left to right:

  1. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a seated character (with turban, facial paint, tubular ear muffs, whip hanging from the neck, shirt with tiered designs and skirt with geometric designs) tending to the body of a woman. ML002649 - Museo Larco.
  2. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a seated character (with cape, circular earflaps, collar and tunic) holding Saint Peter and accompanied by the bundle of a dead child. ML002650 - Museo Larco.
  3. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a seated character (with cape, face paint, necklace and tunic) attending to the body of a man with face paint. ML002652 - Museo Larco.
  4. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a seated character with a feline headdress, a rattle hanging around the neck and a belt, tending to the body of a woman. ML012986 - Museo Larco.
  5. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a seated character with a half-moon headdress and animal head, tubular earmuffs, a rattle hanging on the neck, pectoral, wristbands, belt and skirt, attending to the body of a woman. ML013007 - Museo Larco.

Pathologies, diseases and mutilation
A large body of ceramic artwork show individuals with malformations, minor anomalies, and possible genetic syndromes. Possible diagnoses include cleft lip and palate, ocular anomalies such as hypertelorism and orbital dystopia, oligo- and polydactyly, conjoined twinning, clubfoot, Down syndrome, Crouzon syndrome, and Seckel syndrome. These ceramic portraits suggest that these people received a certain respect or even elevated status within their society.

  1. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing kneeling anthropomorphic pallar with uta or leishmaniasis, turban with geometric designs of volutes and triangles, face paint with geometric designs in the shape of an "S", diagonal lines and rhombuses and tunic with geometric design of lines. ML002732 - Museo Larco.
  2. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing bearded character with bot foot, with headdress, mustache, shirt with geometric designs of ulluchu, animal appendages and peanuts, loincloth with geometric designs of vertical lines, triangles and stepped lines. ML002733 - Museo Larco.
  3. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a seated character with a cleft lip, turban, hair tied in two strands, tubular earflaps, cape and tunic. ML002734 - Museo Larco.
  4. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a seated woman with facial paralysis, hair tied in two braids and tunic. ML002735 - Museo Larco.
  5. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a character with facial paralysis, turban with geometric designs of vertical lines, zigzag lines and triangles, circular application and facial paint with geometric design of lines. ML002736 - Museo Larco.

Pathologies, diseases and mutilation
From left to right:

  1. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a seated character with a cleft lip, turban, hair tied in two strands, tubular earflaps, cape and tunic. ML002734 - Museo Larco.
  2. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a seated woman with facial paralysis, hair tied in two braids and tunic. ML002735 - Museo Larco.
  3. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a character with facial paralysis, turban with geometric designs of vertical lines, zigzag lines and triangles, circular application and facial paint with geometric design of lines. ML002736 - Museo Larco.
  4. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a seated woman with facial paralysis, hair tied in two braids, cape with geometric line designs and tunic. ML002737 - Museo Larco.
  5. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a seated character with idiocy, face paint, cape with geometric designs of vertical lines, wristbands and tunic. ML002738 - Museo Larco.

Pathologies, diseases and mutilation
From left to right:

  1. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a blind character with a turban and tunic. ML002812 - Museo Larco.
  2. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a blind character with a turban, tunic and carrying a bag. ML002813 - Museo Larco.
  3. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a blind seated character with a turban and two-color tunic. ML002814 - Museo Larco.
  4. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a blind seated character with a turban, facial paint with geometric designs and a tunic. ML002815 - Museo Larco.

Pathologies, diseases and mutilation

  1. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing blind character sitting and smiling with turban with snake designs and tunic. ML002824 - Museo Larco.

Architecture
The Moches were highly skilled architects. As their raw material is adobe, they built monumental religious-administrative complexes, made up of palaces and temples or huacas (in the shape of a truncated pyramid), which were covered with large murals in high and low relief, painted with colors extracted from the nature, where they shaped their gods, myths, legends and all their cultural worldview.

  1. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing two dead characters playing antaras standing in front of a structure with a gable roof with decoration of stepped triangles and baton heads. On a quadrangular platform. ML002899 - Museo Larco.
  2. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a structure with a sloping roof and decoration with geometric designs of snake heads. ML002900 - Museo Larco.
  3. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a snake with a feline head coming out of the door of a structure with a gable roof with stepped decoration. ML002901 - Museo Larco.
  4. Sculptural pitcher representing a structure with inclined and gabled roofs with geometric designs of interlocking waves on a circular pyramidal structure with designs of interlocking volutes and triangles forming a cross. ML002902 - Museo Larco.
  5. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a structure with a gable roof with stepped decoration, snakes with feline heads and jugs. Representation of two snakes with feline heads. ML002903 - Museo Larco.

Hero Ai Apaec
The ancient Peruvians worshiped the jaguar because it was capable of destroying man, and this was a sign of power for them. In the Evolutionary Epoch, the feline appears raised on its hind legs, stylized and idealized, since that moment it has become a symbol.
Later, in the first three Mochica periods, the divinity takes on the body of a man, but keeps the head of a feline. In the fourth and fifth Mochica periods, the complete transfiguration occurs and the divinity appears with the body and head of a man, leaving as the only remnant of its feline origin, the large fangs, the wrinkled face and the whiskers that emerge from the sides of its human nose. It is this divinity that the Mochicas worship in the heyday, it is the anthropomorphic feline, the divinity of all the cultures of this time. Of course, each people interprets divinity in its own way, differing in a less marked way than in the Evolutionary Epoch.

  1. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing double-sided head of an anthropomorphic character with supernatural features (Ai Apaec) with feline fangs, facial decoration with geometric wave designs and animal head earrings. ML003000 - Museo Larco.
  2. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle rattle representing head of an anthropomorphic character with supernatural features (Ai Apaec) with feline fangs, bilobed ears and feline headdress. ML003002 - Museo Larco.
  3. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing the head of an anthropomorphic character with supernatural features (Ai Apaec) with feline fangs, wrinkled face, bilobed ears and facial paint. ML003004 - Museo Larco.

Hero Ai Apaec
From left to right:

  1. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing the head of an anthropomorphic character with supernatural features (Ai Apaec) with feline fangs, wrinkled face, bilobed ears and facial paint. ML003004 - Museo Larco.
  2. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing the head of an anthropomorphic character with supernatural features (Ai Apaec) with a wrinkled face, feline headdress and facial paint. ML003006 - Museo Larco.
  3. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing the head of an anthropomorphic character with supernatural features (Ai Apaec) with feline fangs, wrinkled face, feline headdress, animal head earrings, facial paint. Geometric scroll designs. ML003008 - Museo Larco.
  4. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle rattle representing head of an anthropomorphic character with supernatural features (Ai Apaec) with feline fangs, wrinkled face, bilobed ears and feline headdress. Geometric designs of stepped triangles on the pedestal. ML003010 - Museo Larco.

Hero Ai Apaec
From left to right:

  1. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing the head of an anthropomorphic character with supernatural features (Ai Apaec) with feline fangs, a feline headdress and bilobed ears. ML003012 - Museo Larco.
  2. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing the head of an anthropomorphic character with supernatural features (Ai Apaec) with feline fangs and bilobed ears. ML003013 - Museo Larco.

Religion
Four major complexes of phenomena can be distinguished in the Moche religion: 1) the cult of the warrior-priest as an official religion, 2) the shaman practice as one with the individual, magical character, 3) mythological motifs and 4) the cult of the dead.

  1. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing the head of an anthropomorphic character with supernatural features (Ai Apaec) with a wrinkled face, feline fangs and headdress of snakes with feline heads. ML002985 - Museo Larco.
  2. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle rattle representing head of an anthropomorphic character with supernatural features (Ai Apaec) with feline fangs, facial paint and headdress of snakes with feline heads. Triangle and staggered decoration. ML002987 - Museo Larco.
  3. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing the head of an anthropomorphic character with supernatural features (Ai Apaec) with feline fangs, facial paint, animal head earrings and a headdress of sea lion heads. ML002989 - Museo Larco.
  4. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing the head of an anthropomorphic character with facial paint with a representation of anthropomorphic faces with feline fangs. Headdress with two human faces with circular earflaps, two felines and an anthropomorphic spider with a human face and legs made of bird heads and feline heads, forming part of the head. ML002993 - Museo Larco.

Religion
From left to right:

  1. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing the head of an anthropomorphic character with facial paint with a representation of anthropomorphic faces with feline fangs. Headdress with two human faces with circular earflaps, two felines and an anthropomorphic spider with a human face and legs made of bird heads and feline heads, forming part of the head. ML002993 - Museo Larco.
  2. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing the head of an anthropomorphic character with supernatural features (Ai Apaec) with a wrinkled face, feline fangs, feline headdress and circular earflaps. ML002992 - Museo Larco.
  3. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing the head of an anthropomorphic character with facial paint, representation of anthropomorphic faces with feline fangs. Headdress with two human faces with circular earflaps, two felines and an anthropomorphic spider with a human face and legs made of bird heads and feline heads, forming part of the head. ML002994 - Museo Larco.

Religion
From left to right:

  1. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing the head of an anthropomorphic character with facial paint, representation of anthropomorphic faces with feline fangs. Headdress with two human faces with circular earflaps, two felines and an anthropomorphic spider with a human face and legs made of bird heads and feline heads, forming part of the head. ML002994 - Museo Larco.
  2. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing the head of an anthropomorphic character with supernatural features (Ai Apaec) with feline fangs, animal head earrings and a headdress of sea lion heads. ML002998 - Museo Larco.
  3. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing the head of an anthropomorphic character with supernatural features (Ai Apaec) with feline fangs, helmet and facial paint. ML002999 - Museo Larco.
  4. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle rattle representing head of an anthropomorphic character with supernatural features (Ai Apaec) with feline fangs and headdress of feline paws. Geometric designs of stepped triangles with quadrangular volutes. ML002996 - Museo Larco.

Ai Apaec mythological cycle
These sculptural ceramic bottles represent an episode of the mythological cycle of the Mochica hero “Ai Apaec” (named after Rafael Larco, a term that in the Muchik language means “the maker”), characterized by wearing a belt and snake earmuffs, fangs in the face, and a headdress that varies according to the context in which he finds himself as part of his deed. The Mochica mythological hero, together with his dog, fly on a red-headed buzzard, from the mountains, over the valleys, towards the sea.

  1. Sculpture representing anthropomorphic character with supernatural features (Ai Apaec) with feline fangs, wrinkled face, feline headdress, circular earmuffs, circular bead necklace, snake belt, loincloth and wristbands; fighting against seated woman carrying child on her back. ML003109 - Museo Larco.
  2. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing anthropomorphic character with supernatural features (Ai Apaec) lying down holding knife and decapitated head, with feline fangs, wrinkled face, feline headdress with baton head, snake head earrings, crustacean legs, shirt with tiered designs, snake belt, wristbands and loincloth. ML003111 - Museo Larco.

Ai Apaec flying over the mountains
This episode is part of the mythological cycle of this Moche character who begins his journey by entering the sea.

  1. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle that represents an anthropomorphic character with supernatural features (hero Ai Apaec) with feline fangs and a belt of snakes, a feline headdress, crescent and plumes, bird head earrings and a loincloth, flying above a bird. Representation of an anthropomorphic character with the head and tail of a lizard, a bird headdress and club head, tunic and belt, carrying darts. Dog representation. Representation of a snake with animal ears and an anthropomorphic character, with a tail, tunic and belt. This piece represents Ai Apaec's journey on the buzzard accompanied by his lizard and dog companions. ML003197 - Museo Larco.
  2. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing anthropomorphic character with supernatural features (Ai Apaec) with feline fangs, snake belt, feline headdress and crescent, wristbands and loincloth, flying above a bird. Representation of dog and iguana. ML003198 - Museo Larco.
  3. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing anthropomorphic character with supernatural features (Ai Apaec) with feline fangs, snake belt, feline headdress, crescent and plumes, animal head (snake) earflaps, pectoral and loincloth, flying above a bird. Representation of a dog and feline in the front area of the piece. Representation of hills on the body of the bottle. ML003199 - Museo Larco.
  4. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing anthropomorphic character with supernatural features (Ai Apaec) with feline fangs, snake belt, feline headdress, crescent and two plumes, animal head earrings and loincloth, flying above a bird. Representation of dog and feline. ML003200 - Museo Larco.
  5. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing anthropomorphic character with supernatural features (Ai Apaec) with feline fangs, headdress with two plumes, animal head earrings, shirt, bulge on the back and loincloth; holding oar and sailing in boat with two animal heads. ML003201 - Museo Larco.
  6. Pictorial bottle neck with stirrup handle with representation of combat between anthropomorphic character with supernatural features (hero Ai Apaec) with feline fangs and snake belt, headdress, snake head earrings, pectoral, shirt, wristband. ML013658 - Museo Larco.

Ai Apaec emerging from the inside of a snail
This sculptural ceramic bottles represents an episode of the mythological cycle of the Mochica hero “Ai Apaec”, characterized by wearing a belt and ear muffs of snakes, fangs in the face, and a headdress that varies according to the context in which he finds himself as part of his deed. Ai Apaec enters the marine world to fight with beings that inhabit it, he confronts them and thus obtains some powers or elements that enable him to advance to greater depths and darkness. One of these beings is the marine mollusk Strombus sp. which is appreciated in the Andes for also serving as a trumpet, pututo or waylla kepa. In these bottles Ai Apaec is seen emerging from the snail shell carrying spears and stolics.

  1. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing an anthropomorphic character with supernatural features (hero Ai Apaec) holding stolic and darts, with feline fangs, belt of snakes, body of a sea snail (Strombus), feline headdress and crescent, head earrings animal, pectoral, shirt and wristbands. This piece represents the transformation of the mythological hero Ai Apaec into a Strombus or pututo snail. ML003208 - Museo Larco.
  2. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing anthropomorphic character with supernatural features (Ai Apaec) with feline fangs, crab body, human head and limbs, headdress, facial and body paint, circular earmuffs, circular bead necklace, shirt and wristbands; fishing demon fish with line. ML003212 - Museo Larco.
  3. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing anthropomorphic character with supernatural features (Ai Apaec) with human head and lower limbs, crab body, feline fangs, crescent headdress and animal head (monkey) with bilobed ears, snake head earrings and circular bead necklace. ML013031 - Museo Larco.

Ai Apaec sitting in front of a mountain
The Mountain Sacrifice Ceremony is a common but less extensively studied sacrificial scene in Moche iconography. In this scene, supernatural figures known as Wrinkle Face and Iguana are depicted participating in a sacrificial activity that takes place in a mountain setting. As places of direct access to the supernatural world, mountain peaks may have provided an ideal location for ritual, including human sacrifice.

  1. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing anthropomorphic character with supernatural features (Ai Apaec) sitting in front of a mountain, with bilobed ears, feline fangs, facial paint, pectoral and shirt; flanked by two snakes. ML003371 - Museo Larco.
  2. Sculptural jug representing anthropomorphic character with supernatural features (Ai Apaec) sitting in front of a mountain, with bilobed ears, feline fangs, pectoral, shirt, skirt with geometric designs and wristbands; flanked by two snakes. ML003372 - Museo Larco.
  3. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing anthropomorphic character with supernatural features (Ai Apaec) sitting in front of a mountain, with bilobed ears, feline fangs, pectoral, shirt, loincloth and wristbands; flanked by two snakes. ML003373 - Museo Larco.
  4. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing anthropomorphic character with supernatural features (Ai Apaec) sitting in front of a mountain, with bilobed ears, feline fangs, pectoral, shirt, loincloth and wristbands; flanked by two snakes. ML003374 - Museo Larco.
  5. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing an anthropomorphic character with supernatural features (Ai Apaec) sitting in front of a mountain, with bilobed ears, feline fangs, facial paint, pectoral with geometric designs, shirt, body paint on the legs and wristbands; flanked by two snakes. ML003375 - Museo Larco.
  6. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing anthropomorphic character with supernatural features (Ai Apaec) sitting in front of a mountain, with bilobed ears, feline fangs, pectoral, shirt, wristbands and loincloth; flanked by two snakes. ML003376 - Museo Larco.

Ai Apaec fighting with the Dragon
This piece represents the combat episode of the hero Ai Apaec with the Dragon or Sea Demon.

  1. Sculptural stirrup handle neck bottle representing an anthropomorphic character with supernatural features (hero Ai Apaec) with a human body, wrinkled face, snake belt, feline headdress and crescent, face paint, shirt, loincloth with geometric dot designs, and paint body, fighting against an anthropomorphic character (Dragon) with a human body, animal head, with serrated appendages, belt of snakes, face paint, shirt with geometric designs of vertical lines, loincloth with geometric designs of dots and body paint. ML003466 - Museo Larco.

Bats and a Dragon
The Moche portrayed bats in many figurative ceramic vessels in association with themes of sacrifice, elite status and agricultural fertility. The bat symbolized death and renewal not only for the human body but also for agriculture, society and the cosmos. The nocturnal behaviour of the bat and its symbolic association with the moon and the darkness of the underworld was not a negative sphere to be feared or rejected. Instead, like the representative priestesses of the Late Moche period, bats formed part of a visual repertoire to depict the cycles of destruction and renewal that permitted the cosmological continuation of life within Moche society.

  1. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing an anthropomorphic character holding a canchero and a bell-shaped vase, with the head and spread wings of an animal (bat), facial paint and a tunic with geometric line designs. ML003471 - Museo Larco.
  2. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing an anthropomorphic character holding a canchero and a bell-shaped vase, with the head and spread wings of an animal (bat), facial paint and a tunic with geometric line designs. ML003472 - Museo Larco.
  3. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing anthropomorphic character (Dragon) with a human body, serrated animal head, fangs, pectoral and loincloth, holding knife in the left hand and decapitated human head in the right hand. Mochica art shows us other types of sacrifice of defeated warriors. Some took place on the islands, for which the warriors were transported on rafts across the sea. ML003470 - Museo Larco.
  4. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing an anthropomorphic character holding stirrup handle neck bottle, with an animal head (bat), cape and tunic with geometric designs of vertical lines. ML003475 - Museo Larco.
  5. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing anthropomorphic character holding canchero and flared vase, with animal head (bat), bag on the back, turban and tunic. ML003474 - Museo Larco.

Snakes
In Andean cosmology, the snake represents one of the animals with the greatest symbolic significance, feared for its aggressiveness and fierceness, but also recognized for its association with fertility, rain, and protective powers.

  1. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a coiled snake with a feline head. ML003580 - Museo Larco.
  2. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a coiled anthropomorphic character with human limbs, a snake's body and a feline's head. ML003587 - Museo Larco.
  3. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a snake coiled with feline heads. ML003584 - Museo Larco.
  4. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing coiled snakes with feline heads. ML003586 - Museo Larco.
  5. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing coiled snakes with feline heads. ML003588 - Museo Larco.
  6. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a coiled snake with a feline head. ML003589 - Museo Larco.

Owls
The owl was one of the more powerful birds in the Moche bestiary: owls are carnivores and pray on other animals, which may have been of symbolic importance. In addition, the owl's ability to fly at night may have been seen as indicative of mystical or divine power.

  1. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing anthropomorphic character sitting on circular pyramidal structure with ramp, holding quadrangular shield and baton (Warrior), with head and wings of an owl, crescent and owl headdress, animal head earrings, shirt, belt with geometric designs and skirt. ML003794 - Museo Larco.
  2. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing a seated anthropomorphic character holding a drum, with the head and wings of an owl, a half-moon and owl headdress, a necklace with animal head beads, a shirt with designs and circular tassels. ML003795 - Museo Larco.
  3. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing an anthropomorphic character sitting on a quadrangular pyramidal structure (with baton decoration), with the head and wings of an owl, a conical headdress with a two-headed snake, circular earflaps, a tunic and a belt. ML003796 - Museo Larco.
  4. Sculptural bottle neck with stirrup handle representing the head of an owl with feline fangs and animal head earrings. ML003797 - Museo Larco.
  5. Sculptural vase representing the head of an owl with feline fangs and animal head earrings. ML003799 - Museo Larco.

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Location: Av. Simón Bolivar 1515 Ingreso por, frente al, Parque Larco, Navarra 169, Pueblo Libre 15084, Peru