Producer unknown to us
Ceramic bowl
Americas, Ecuador, Province Carchi, El Ángel
Prior to 1904
Clay, baked, cream slip, painted
Hans Meyer
Donation to the museum by Meyer in 1904
SAm 11203
This vessel was most likely a funerary object or used for ceremonial purposes. It comes from the Nariño/Carchi civilization, which lived in the Andean regions of Ecuador and Colombia between the 5th and 15th century AD.
Hans Meyer acquired the vessel in 1903 from a local collector in Ecuador’s capital, Quito, while on a glaciological research expedition to the country’s Andean plains. Meyer did not provide the collector’s name in his manuscripts. It was most likely found in the area around the town of El Ángel in northern Ecuador.
After his return, he donated the vessel and 150 other archaeological finds and contemporary items to the museum in 1907.
Dietmar Grundmann