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Tripod Vessels from the Virú Valley
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2017
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In a recent paper Arden R. King notes that the occurrence of tripod vessels in pre-Expansionist Central Andean periods has not yet been definitely established. The Columbia University Virú Valley collection, however, contains two examples of conical legs belonging to the type Castillo, White, Red, Orange. This pottery type has a Middle Gallinazo distribution.
The two specimens are fragmentary; i.e., only the legs themselves rather than the whole vessel have been preserved. They are probably from tripod vessels. The scarcity of the tetrapod form in the Central Andes greatly reduces the possibility that the legs could be from tetrapod vessels.
The legs are hollow and pointed-conical in shape. The one whole specimen is 6.6 cm. high and is 5.5 cm. at the widest part across the top. I t then tapers to a point at the bottom. Both legs are straight walled, not bulging or rounded.
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1 King, Arden R., “Tripod Pottery in the Central Andean Area,” American Antiquity, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 103–16, 1948.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
2 The full stratigraphic and other sequences secured by the Columbia University unit of the Virú Valley Project of 1946 will appear in a forth coming publication: Wm. Duncan Strong and Clifford Evans, Cultural Stratigraphy in the Virú Valley, Northern Peru, the Formative and Florescent Epochs.
3 Cachot, Rebecca Carrion, “La cultura Chavin,” Revisia del Museo National de Antropologla y Arqueologia, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 99–172, 1948.Google Scholar
4 Wendell C. Bennett, “The Gallinazo Group, Virú Valley, Peru,” Yale University Publications in Anthropology, No. 43, in press.
5 Rafael Larco Hoyle, Los Cuspisniques, p. 15, lower right hand plate, 1945.