- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Pottery vessel with creamy glazed surface, on which are patterns in geometric designs of thick and thin lines of brown. [MOBB [OPS move] 16/03/2016]
- Long description
- Pottery vessel with creamy glazed surface, on which are patterns in geometric designs of thick and thin lines of brown. These patterns continue onto the base, where a brown cross is also drawn. [MOBB [OPS move] 16/03/2016]
- 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
- Height: max 56 mm, Diameter: max 127 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1923.88.106
- 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.
1923.88.106
Pottery vessel with creamy glazed surface, on which are patterns in geometric designs of thick and thin lines of brown. [MOBB [OPS move] 16/03/2016]
1923.88.106
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