Flared bowl: mythical orca figure and interlocking fish CULTURE: Nasca DATE: 430-530 CE more object details keyboard_arrow_down Early Intermediate period (Pre-Columbian Andean styles and periods) Nazca Nazca (Nasca) Peru (nation) animals (Animalia kingdom) bands (decorative) bowls (vessels) caimans (alligators / Crocodilia order / Alligatoridae family) ceramic (material) circles (plane figures) clay coiling (pottery technique) crocodile (animals/crocodylidae family) duality (concepts) faces (animal or human components) fangs (teeth) figures (representations) firing (technique) fish (animals) frets (pattern) geometric motifs geometric patterns heads (representations) lines (geometric concept) modeling (forming) mythical or legendary beings orca (killer whale / Orcinus orca) paint (coating) quadrant (shape) rectangles (parallelograms) repetition (artistic concept) ritual vessels serpents (snakes/Serpentes suborder) serving dishes slip (clay) slip glaze step pattern stepped frets (meanders (patterns)/motifs) teeth (animal components) triangles (polygons) vessels (containers) whales (living organism) zigzags (geometric patterns) more tags keyboard_arrow_down arrow_upward