Pottery vessel of red ware with white glazed surface. [MOBB [OPS move] 14/03/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Pottery vessel of red ware with white glazed surface. [MOBB [OPS move] 14/03/2016]
Long description: Pottery vessel of red ware with white glazed surface, on which are patterns in geometric designs of thick and thin lines of brown. The base is glazed, but without pigment. [MOBB [OPS move] 14/03/2016]
Geographical reference: Peru
Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Peru; Northern Peru
Cultural groups: Ikitu; Shipibo-Konibo
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, Material Pigment, Process Glazed, Process Painted, Process Slipped
Dimensions: Diameter: max 137 mm, Height: max 97 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1923.88.90
Research and responses: According to Thomas Myers, 1997 (Curator of Anthropology, University of Nebraska State Museum) this group of pots (1923.88.87 - 109) are probably not Iquitos but are Shipibo (or a neighbouring tribe in the Central Local Ucayali such as the Conibo). There are many features typical of Shipibo pottery: the everted lips, the geomometric painted design combining thicker lines with fine infill lines, the inverted w-shaped wiggle at the top of the brown outline design, the use of a cream slip with brown and red overpaint sealed with a resin (called copal) which is seared on when the pot is buring hot. Most of the pots in this group were made as miniatures for tourists. The better pots in this group have firm lines making the design combined with fine line infill and have a cream coloured slip rather than the darker yellow ones. This piece is not one of the finest pieces.

Search terms: Pottery, Vessel, Trade

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