Drummer vulvas

Room 3, Vitrine 12

• These sculptural pottery bottles are conceived in the form of a human body, with the head representing the vulva, and the clitoris emerging from between the labia. These women are clothed in long dresses and adorned with typical female jewelry in the form of a labret inserted below the lower lip.
• Both individuals are playing the tinya, a small round drum fashioned from leather. Its sound is like the heartbeat felt in a mother’s uterus. The tinya is an instrument associated with the subterranean world from which plants emerge.
• Moche culture, Florescent Epoch (1 AD – 800 AD), ML004309, ML004311.

ML004309

ML004309