Simple bowl with an open form. The outside of the bowl now appears as a pale yellow colour. [MOBB [OPS move] 14/03/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Simple bowl with an open form. The outside of the bowl now appears as a pale yellow colour. [MOBB [OPS move] 14/03/2016]
Long description: Simple bowl with an open form. The outside of the bowl now appears as a pale yellow colour. The inside has a very faint decoration of red criss-crossed lines on a pale ground. [MOBB [OPS move] 14/03/2016]
Geographical reference: Peru
Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Peru; Northern Peru
Cultural groups: Achuar; Shiwiar
Person: Field collector Ronald Hawkesby Thomas; PRM source Ronald Hawkesby Thomas
Date / Period: Date made: Circa 1920-1923?, uncertain
Date collected: ?1922
Acquisition information: Donated: 1923
Materials and processes: Material Clay, Material Pottery
Dimensions: Diameter: max 180 mm, Height: max 85 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1923.88.60
Research and responses: According to Thomas Myers, 1997 (Curator of Anthropology, University of Nebraska State Museum) these five pots [.60 - 64] are for genuine indigenous use as drinking or eating bowls (although to date we have only tracked down three of them).