Portrait Jar This is a "skeletalized/flayed" male portrait presents an ominous and somewhat frightful expression. It is debatable if the man was deliberately mutilated as criminal punishment, or whether it is an illustration of a syphilis-like disease, in which the skin has sloughed from the nose and face.
		Moche, Phase IV North Central Coast, Peru AD 600 Ceramic, redware Gift of William C. Lickle 1978.0007.0009