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Vessel with Stirrup Spout, 500-200 BC. The stirrup spout first appeared on the North Coast in the ceramics of the Cupisnique culture, a Chavín contemporary, and remained an important North Coast spout form until the time of the Spanish conquest. It probably had symbolic meaning, now lost.
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Keywords: 1200-200, art, bc, ceramic, cleveland, coast, cupisnique, earthenware, heritage, museum, north, peru, style, unknown