Context (Field collection)
The catalogue card for 1947.304, which applies to the Colchester Museum accession as a whole, notes that: 'The collection said, on the Colchester label, to come from Chimbote and Trujillo'.
Event Date
Author: Zahni Blumenthal

Context (Other owners)
Collected by Arthur Edwin Macandrew during the 30 years he lived in Peru, where he was the manager of a sugar plantation. He donated his collection to the Colchester Museum in July 1931; the collection was subsequently transferred to MAA in 1947.
Event Date 1931
Author: Zahni Blumenthal

Context (References)
(1932). The Colchester & Essex Museum Annual Report, 1931-1932. Colchester: Cullingford & Co., Ltd. pp. 4 & 53.
Event Date 1932
Author: Zahni Blumenthal

Context (Analysis)
Catalogue card in G.H.S. Bushnell’s hand notes: ‘Probably Chimbote.'
Event Date 1947
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
1947.340 B-C: 'Jars depicting warriors carrying club and shield with 'bat' head-pieces.'
Event Date 1947
Author: maa

Context (Analysis)
1947.340 B-C: 'Protruding from the back of the head-dress is a long, striped tail. This may indicate the head-dress is intended to represent a feline rather than a bat.'
Event Date 19/10/2012
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Anthropomorphic jar of bichrome ware, with red and cream slip applied over a reddish orange fabric, depicting a male figure wearing a zoomorphic headdress and holding a club or staff and shield. Simple rim atop a broad neck bearing the figure’s face; rounded body mouldered with figure’s arms, torso and legs; flat base. The figure’s head is surmounted by a headdress bearing the face of a bat or feline creature at the front and a tail-like extension hanging vertically at the rear; the figure’s face features two large circular ear ornaments, almond shaped eyes, a pointed nose and a closed, downturned mouth; the figure’s neck is encircled by a broad panelled collar; the body features two slight arms, the right holding a club or staff and the left holding a small disc-shaped shield; a moulded belt rests at the figure’s waist with small moulded legs and feet flanking a cream painted loincloth. The vessel surface is covered with a red slip with certain features including the eyes, collar, bracelets and elements of the club/staff, shield and headdress picked out in cream slip.
Event Date 12/12/2024
Author: Zahni Blumenthal