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animal-aspects.bsky.social Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia) @animal-aspects.bsky.social · Jul 24
Spectacled Bear Effigy Jar
Chimu, Peru, Late Intermediate Period, c.1300-1470
Blackware, 8 x 3.75 x 4.75 in (20.3 x 9.5 x 12.1 cm)
Johnson Museu of Art 56.160:
museum.cornell.edu/collections/...
#AndeanBearDay #PeruvianArt #IndigenousArt
"This burnished blackware Chimú vessel is formed in the shape of a standing spectacled bear, with large round eyes and front paws with six digits each raised to shoulder height. The straight spout is chipped at the rim and the creature's left hind foot has broken off and been repaired; otherwise the vessel is in excellent condition. This creature has a long, thin, monkeylike tail curling to the right, with similarly thin hind legs and feet."
July 22, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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Resharing for #AndeanBearDay!
animal-aspects.bsky.social Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia) @animal-aspects.bsky.social · Jul 21
Happy #AndeanBearDay! The Andean Bear, aka Spectacled Bear (Tremarctos ornatus), is South America's only extant bear species.
Spectacled Bear Bottle
Moche culture, Peru, 5th-7th c.
Ceramic, slip, H. 6.75 × W. 3.5 in. (17.1 × 8.9 cm)
Met 63.112.5: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
"This ceramic stirrup-spout bottle was sculpted in the shape of a seated, cross-legged spectacled bear with human arms and hands resting on the knees. The bear wears a cream-colored tunic and a headdress tied under the chin, painted using red-ochre and cream slips. The creature’s face features a broad, vertical white stripe in the center, flanked by two red stripes, emulating both the natural coloration of the bear’s face and the type of face paint seen on ceramic portraits of human warriors."
July 22, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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Happy Andean Bear Day! I took this picture of a cub in Ecuador in February. #andeanbear #ecuador #paddington #photography #cub #andes #andeanbearday
A cub with its ear pointed up in the V shaped opening of branches in a tree.
July 21, 2026 at 10:14 PM
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Happy Andean Bear Day! Here is a picture of Sean and Ian while at the National Zoo. Sean stood up to protect his fruit from his always hungry brother. #andeanbearday #andeanbear #photography #zoo @sonycamera.bsky.social
An Andean Bear cub standing up and eating a piece of fruit in order to keep it away from his always hungry brother. The brother is looking up at the food.
July 21, 2025 at 9:50 PM
animal-aspects.bsky.social
Happy #AndeanBearDay! The Andean Bear, aka Spectacled Bear (Tremarctos ornatus), is South America's only extant bear species.
Spectacled Bear Bottle
Moche culture, Peru, 5th-7th c.
Ceramic, slip, H. 6.75 × W. 3.5 in. (17.1 × 8.9 cm)
Met 63.112.5: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
"This ceramic stirrup-spout bottle was sculpted in the shape of a seated, cross-legged spectacled bear with human arms and hands resting on the knees. The bear wears a cream-colored tunic and a headdress tied under the chin, painted using red-ochre and cream slips. The creature’s face features a broad, vertical white stripe in the center, flanked by two red stripes, emulating both the natural coloration of the bear’s face and the type of face paint seen on ceramic portraits of human warriors."
July 21, 2024 at 8:33 PM
animal-aspects.bsky.social
Spectacled Bear Effigy Jar
Chimu, Peru, Late Intermediate Period, c.1300-1470
Blackware, 8 x 3.75 x 4.75 in (20.3 x 9.5 x 12.1 cm)
Johnson Museu of Art 56.160:
museum.cornell.edu/collections/...
#AndeanBearDay #PeruvianArt #IndigenousArt
"This burnished blackware Chimú vessel is formed in the shape of a standing spectacled bear, with large round eyes and front paws with six digits each raised to shoulder height. The straight spout is chipped at the rim and the creature's left hind foot has broken off and been repaired; otherwise the vessel is in excellent condition. This creature has a long, thin, monkeylike tail curling to the right, with similarly thin hind legs and feet."
July 24, 2024 at 4:13 PM