7. Neckless jar with complex scene. Paracas; South Coast, Peru, 350 bce–60 ce. Ceramic and post-昀椀re paint, H. 12 1/16 in. (30.6 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Bequest of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1979 (1979.206.741) of repair, suggesting that they were highly valued and sel with a broken spout, for example, was likely created used over a long period of time. Pairs of holes would be more than 100 kilometers from the location of its 昀椀nal carefully placed on either side of a crack, presumably to deposit at Huaca de la Luna, in the Moche Valley. In some reinforce their walls with twine (昀椀g. 7, with repair holes cases, burials may have been only the most recent context 7 visible in left half). In other cases, a broken spout was for these objects before they were excavated hundreds 8 secured to the body of the vessel, also with twine (昀椀g. 8). of years later, when they continued their “social lives” in These repairs speak to the long use-lives of these objects, communities and museums, taking on new roles and new but also to the distances they traveled over time. The ves- meanings along the way. 11