The art of Moche Pottery

        Pottery, not the first thing you think about when you want to jot something down. When one goes to write something, whether be it an idea or to record the daily events, one just needs to pick up a pen and write. However to the Mochica people, pottery is just that, both a writing utensil and a medium. Unlike our system of writing where we use symbols to form a meaning, the Mochica did not …

…pattern" (Benson 1972).         It should be clear by now that the pottery tells of the Mochica achievement. There were plain pots for every day, but the decorated pottery is undoubtedly of great importance to the Mochica. Unfortunately, we are not able to tell whether men or women were potters. In their jars, painted with scenes of everyday life, and their figure-modeled portrait jars they revealed fantasy and humor and achieved an astonishing fidelity to human forms.