Description (Labels & Markings)
Handwritten label affixed to object reads: '591'.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Analysis)
Dated to after 1534 AD. Coast type.
Event Date 1924
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Vessel in form of a negro's head. Apparently made directly after the Conquest. Coast type. Human Head.
Event Date 1924
Author: maa

Context (Auction / Sale)
Accession Register notes: 'Bt by donor [as?] Cuzco. Probably made directly after Conquest.'
Event Date 1924
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Production / use)
Catalogue card notes: 'Apparently made directly after the Conquest.'
Event Date 1924
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Vessel in form of the head of an African man, with the curls of the hair moulded in relief. Hole at the top of the head, and neck expanding into a flaring base.
Event Date 15/1/2018
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Analysis)
Professor Dennis Ogburn, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, took a small scraping from the interior of the vessel in January 2018. The sample will be tested for alkaloids using LCMS at Kingston University to ascertain whether the vessel contained psychoactive compounds.
Event Date 15/1/2018
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)