Drum: masked being holding trophy heads CULTURE: Nazca DATE: 50 BCE-300 CE more object details keyboard_arrow_down Fun Facts This drum (1990.162), along with another in the DMA collection (1990.163) likely represent a pair and may have been covered with animal hide to create drums. Anthropomorphic Mythical Being (AMB / Nazca deity) Early Intermediate period (Pre-Columbian Andean styles and periods) Nazca Nazca (Nasca) Peru (nation) animals (Animalia kingdom) anthropomorphic beheadings (executions / decapitations / personal life events) bicephalic (two-headed / double-headed) ceramic (material) circles (plane figures) clay coiling (pottery technique) costume deities diamonds (motifs) drums (membranophones) effigies (funerary sculpture) face paint (body art / visual works / adornment) faces (animal or human components) figures (representations) firing (technique) geometric motifs geometric patterns geometric shape headdresses heads (representations) hide (collagenous material / large animal skins) lines (geometric concept) masks (costume) modeling (forming) mythical or legendary beings necklaces paint (coating) reptiles ritual objects ritual vessels sacrifices serpents (snakes/Serpentes suborder) slip (clay) slip glaze sound devices (equipment) triangles (polygons) trophies (objects) trophies of war (objects) trophy heads (trophies of war) vessels (containers) whisker (hair material) whiskers (facial hairstyle) more tags keyboard_arrow_down arrow_upward