37. Bottles with portrait heads. Moche; North Coast, Peru, 500–800 ce. Ceramic and slip. Left: H. 11 in. (27.9 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Cummings, 1964 (64.228.22). Right: H. 10 ⼀欀 in. (26.4 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1882 (82.1.28) person represented across multiple vessels, tracing their vessels may, however, have had extended lives before 31 growth from youth to middle age. All portrait vessels their respective burials. Evidence of wear on the portrait that have been found through scienti昀椀c excavation have vessels, for example, as well as sherds of them in trash been recovered from high-status burials, where they heaps, suggest that they were used in life before being were part of larger assemblages with other vessels. deposited in tombs. Scenes on two 昀椀neline works depict There is no evidence to suggest that the portraits rep- them in ceremonial settings, including one where we resent the entombed individuals, as portraits of men see a dignitary, shown seated atop a platform beneath a have been found with women, and portraits of the same roof ornamented with war clubs, facing a portrait head 38 individual have been found in multiple tombs. These vessel (昀椀g. 38).