Balance-Beam Scale with Incised Circles in Paddle-like Design
Nasca
1000–1470
Medium
Bone
Dimensions
11 × 16.4 cm (4 5/16 × 7/16 in.)
Classification
bone
Department
Arts of the Americas
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
126433
About the Artist
Nasca
Nasca artists, active from approximately 100 BCE to 800 CE along the arid southern coast of Peru in the Rio Grande de Nazca and Ica Valleys, produced some of the most vibrant and technically innovative art of the ancient Americas. Their work emerged from the Paracas tradition, expanding on earlier resin-painted ceramics and complex textiles while introducing pre-fire slip painting in up to twelve ...