Chancay Chino or Effigy Vessel

He holds his small cup with both hands, as though someone might take it.

This chino, or effigy vessel, is terra cotta from the Chancay people of Peru, dated 1000 to 1470 CE. Chancay potters of the Peruvian coast made effigy jars with faces and limbs like this, probably to hold liquids, and many have been found in burials, where they may have accompanied the dead. The tall neck becomes a head, with staring round eyes, disc ears, and painted marks on the cheeks. A pair of thin painted arms circles the swollen body to meet at the cup, and two looping legs fill the lower half. Sixteen inches high.

Nobody has, in all this time.