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1923.88.102

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

1923.88.102

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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 thin lines of brown and red pigment which cover the entirety of the exterior and base. Only the rim of the interior is glazed white. [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 146 mm, Height: max 103 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1923.88.102
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 (as per accession book provenenace) 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.

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