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"Pottery fine bird.
This object affords an exampel of modelled ceramics, according to Swvyer 'comparatively rare in all Nazca periods'. It is a bird with a reversed head and a long beak forming a kind of handle.
The bird´s legs are painted red or beige. The rest of the décor is red, yellow, beige, and dark brown. Below the neck there is a conspicuous yellow spot, beneath it a dirty-white breast. The neck and the upper part of the bird vessel are dark. The eyes have white rings and a semicircular yellow line.
The bird motif with a reversed head and other easily recognizable ornamental details may be seen on the shale grip of a spear-thrower or atlatl from the Nazca region published in the catalogue Altamerikanische Kunst Mexico-Peru (Lommel and Zerries 1968).
A specimen of probably the same bird species standing, beak against breast, will be found on an earthen vessel from Nazca in the Gaffron Collection (Lehmann and Doering, 1924 plate 27)." S. Henry Wassén, 1973.

The Georg von Békésy Collection. Selected objects from the collection of Georg von Békésy bequeathed to the Nobel Foundation. Ed. Jan Wirgin, Malmö 1974.

Sawyer, Ancient Peruvian Ceramics, 1966 p. 128.
Lommel, Andreas and Otto Zerries, Altamerikanische Kunst Mexico-Peru (Statl. Museum für Völkerkunde, Munich 1968) plate 43, item 656.
Lehman, Walter and Heinrich Doering, Kunstgeschichte des Alten Peru, Berlin, 1924, plate 27.
Eisleb, Dieter. Altperuanische Kulturen. Nazca II. Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin 1977.