Asset Overview
Nazca Bird Portrait from the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History Anthropology Collection.
Catalog Number: YPM ANT.235171
Description: 1 Nazca bird portrait (quail) with spout and bridge handle to head; geometrically painted in dark red, orange, dark brown and white. Height 5 1/2', length 7'. South coast, Peru.
Materials: Ceramic
Function: Containers
Culture Group: Latin American : Central Andes : Nasca
Locality: South America; Peru
Unit of measurement = millimeters
3D Reconstruction performed using Reality Capture version 1.2.
237 images captured by the Computer Operated Photogrammetric Imaging System (COPIS), a project to design and prototype a modular, multi-view imaging system for museum collections. http://copis3d.org/
This work has been made possible in part by support from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the Human Endeavor (award no. HAA-266508-19).