Nazca double-spouted water jar
Nazca painted clay double-spouted water jar, 4thâ5th century ce; in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Nazca
ancient South American culture
Also known as: Nasca
Nazca, culture located on the southern coast of present-day Peru during the Early Intermediate Period (c. 200 bcâad 600), so called from the Nazca Valley but including also the Pisco, Chincha, Ica, Palpa, and AcarĂ valleys. Nazca pottery is polychrome. Modeling was sometimes employed, particularly in the later phases; it is, however, rather simply done. In the polychrome painting it is not unusual for four or more colours to have been employed. Backgrounds are usually...
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