Ceramic trumpets were one among many types of wind instruments used by the Moche culture of the northern coast of Peru (c.100-800 CE). This example from the Chicama Valley in Peru has a bell decorated with a zoomorphic feline head.
Trumpet
- Collection History
- Excavated by Thomas Hewitt Myring (1860-1916, who was employed by a mining company with interests in South America), probably between 1908 and 1909; purchased by Henry Vanden Bergh (1851-1937, a Dutch margarine manufacturer and art collector living in London) from Thomas Myring in 1909; purchased by George Heye from Henry Vanden Bergh in 1927 in London, England.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- probably Moche (Mochica) (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Excavator
- T. Hewitt Myring (Thomas Hewitt Myring), Non-Indian, 1860-1916
- Previous owner
- T. Hewitt Myring (Thomas Hewitt Myring), Non-Indian, 1860-1916
- Previous seller
- T. Hewitt Myring (Thomas Hewitt Myring), Non-Indian, 1860-1916
- Previous owner
- Henry Vanden Bergh (Henry Van Den Berg/Henry Vanden Berg), Non-Indian, 1851-1937
- Seller
- Henry Vanden Bergh (Henry Van Den Berg/Henry Vanden Berg), Non-Indian, 1851-1937
- Date created
- AD 100–700 (Early Intermediate to Middle Horizon period)
- Object Name
- Trumpet
- Media/Materials
- Pottery, paint
- Techniques
- Modeled, painted
- Dimensions
- 36 x 7.5 x 20 cm
- Object Type
- Music and Sound
