Fox Warrior Bottle 4th-6th century Moche This stirrup-spout bottle, crafted by people of the Moche culture on the North Coast of Peru, depicts an anthropomorphic fox with human attributes represented in three dimensions. The tridimensional top of the bottle can be interpreted either as a zoomorphized war club or as a fox warrior tying a mace-shaped headdress under its chin. A spray of fruits or tubers, perhaps peppers, is modeled on the top of the club. Clubs, lances, and helmet strings painted in red slip radiate from the neck of the vessel to circumference of the chamber. In both two and three dimensions, weapons, and the broader theme of warfare, are celebrated on this vessel. Foxes are often depicted as warriors in Moche art (Donnan and McClelland, 1999). (For other examples of fox warriors in the collection of the Met, see 63.226.6 and 82.1.29.) The role of foxes in Moche religion may derive from their behavior in the natural world. Foxes hunt and capture small prey, much as warri

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Fox Warrior Bottle 4th-6th century Moche This stirrup-spout bottle, crafted by people of the Moche culture on the North Coast of Peru, depicts an anthropomorphic fox with human attributes represented in three dimensions. The tridimensional top of the bottle can be interpreted either as a zoomorphized war club or as a fox warrior tying a mace-shaped headdress under its chin. A spray of fruits or tubers, perhaps peppers, is modeled on the top of the club. Clubs, lances, and helmet strings painted in red slip radiate from the neck of the vessel to circumference of the chamber. In both two and three dimensions, weapons, and the broader theme of warfare, are celebrated on this vessel. Foxes are often depicted as warriors in Moche art (Donnan and McClelland, 1999). (For other examples of fox warriors in the collection of the Met, see 63.226.6 and 82.1.29.) The role of foxes in Moche religion may derive from their behavior in the natural world. Foxes hunt and capture small prey, much as warri

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