Ceramic bowl painted with rows of heads whose mouths are pinned shut. Early Nasca — undated, but this corresponds to ca. 1-450 AD. American Museum of Natural History collection [8160×4592] [OC]
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Ceramic bowl painted with rows of heads whose mouths are pinned shut. Early Nasca — undated, but this corresponds to ca. 1-450 AD. American Museum of Natural History collection [8160×4592] [OC]
by oldspice75
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[Bowl painted with rows of heads whose mouths are pinned shut. Early Nasca. The mouths of ritual heads were frequently held closed with cactus spines.
41.2/7989B
Gift of Conny and Fred Landmann]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazca_culture
Don’t speak with your mouth full.
A face straight from a Sunday morning cartoonÂ
Seeing artifact like this, it seems like the saying “there’s nothing new in art” isn’t entirely without truth.🤔