The Moche are well known for their art, especially their naturalistic ceramics, particularly in the form of stirrup-spout vessels. The ceramics incorporate a wide-ranging subject matter, both in shape and painted decorations, including representations of people, animals, and ritual scenes. They also feature gods hunting, making war, music making, visiting rulers, burying the dead, and curing the sick. Moche ceramics illustrate these themes over and over again. These images have been very helpful in allowing us to understand their ways of seeing and thinking about the world.

The Moche also wove textiles, mostly using wool from vicuña and alpaca. Although there are few surviving examples of this, descendants of the Moche people have strong weaving traditions.  Look at the image below. You can easily see two faces. Can you make out what else is represented here?

photos By Lombards Museum - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12522040