Fox Runner Effigy Vessel

Artist:Moche

Medium: Ceramic, pigments

Geograhical Locations:

• North Coast, Peru

Dates:ca. 400–700

Dimensions: 10 3/4 x 5 3/4 x 8 7/8 in. (27.3 x 14.6 x 22.5 cm)

Collections:

• Arts of the Americas

Exhibitions:

• Life, Death, and Transformation in the Americas
• Climate in Crisis: Environmental Change in the Indigenous Americas

Accession Number: 36.332

Image: 36.332_SL1.jpg,

Catalogue Description:
Stirrup-spout effigy vessel depicting a seated anthropomorphic fox (fox runner) with a fox head and human body. The figure wears a large circular disk headdress, a woven belt, and wrist and leg ornaments. He grasps the headdress ties in his hands. Condition: good.

Brooklyn Museum