1923.88.80

Collection type

Object

Description

Red ware pottery vessel, flat base with a rounded body, short flared neck and rim. [ASh [OPS move] 04/04/2016]

Long description

Red ware pottery vessel, flat base with a rounded body, short flared neck and rim. Decorated on a white ground with plant and flower motifs in black and red paint on the exterior. [ASh [OPS move] 04/04/2016]

Geographical reference

Peru

Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Peru

Northern Peru

Cultural groups

Ikitu

Yurimagua

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 Painted

Dimensions

Height: max 310 mm, Diameter: max 295 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1923.88.80

Research and responses

According to Thomas Myers, 1997 (Curator of Anthropology, University of Nebraska State Museum) it is difficult to decide what tribe this group of pots were made by (1923.88.74 - 85). Indeed it may have been neither the Iquitos or the Yurimaguas. It is strange that the accession book provenance gives both Iquitos and Yurimaguas as possible makers as these groups are culturally very different. The Yurimaguas people are a mainstream Amazon group moved to the town of Yurimagua by the Jesuits in about 1680. One would expect the Yurimaguas, as a mainstream group, to have much more control over the execution of their pottery than these pieces demonstrate. The Iquitos lived on a tributary North of the Amazon (the Nanay). The decoration on the pots has many similarities to the Solimoes style made by the Cocoma and Omagua peoples. However the designs on these particluar pots appear to have been executed by people who do not fully understand the style. It is possible that these pots were made by a tribe who had had some contact with the Cocma or Omagua peoples in a mission. There are clear indications of European influence, particularly in the floral designs and the shape of the jug (1923.11.85). The use of white slip and the form of the pots are indicative of mainstream Amazon group influence.

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