Bichrome jar
- Title:
- Bichrome jar
- Collection:
- Selections from the Cornell Anthropology Collections
- Donor:
- via Dr. Allan Holberg
- Date:
- modern
- Site:
- Ucayali, Peru
- Location:
- Ucayali, Peru
- Country:
- Peru
- ID Number:
- Anthr1966_006_0001_01
- Old Catalog Number:
- 966.6.1
- File Name:
- Anthr1966_006_0001_01.jpg
- Culture:
- Shipibo
- Style/Period:
- Shipibo
- Work Type:
- jars
ceramic (material)
pottery (object genre) - Materials/Techniques:
- ceramic (material)
paint
varnish - Subject:
- shipibo-conibo art
- Measurement:
- 23.1 x 0.3 x 28.7 x 14.2 (rim) (centimeters, height x thickness x diameter x diameter)
- Description:
- Tempered with fine grit, paste is very pale brown (10 YR 7/3)
exterior burnished except for base which was scraped
coil made
hardness: 3 (Moh)
flat base
sides expand angularly and then form a pronounced squat bulge
neck is conical
rim is everted
exterior (except for lower third) is painted white and then decorated with red (10 YR 4/6) and dusky red (10 R 3/6)
linear and geometric designs
exterior varnished. Spout influenced by Lambayeque/Sican ceramics with the Sican Lord motif. - Bibliography:
- Farabee, William 1922 Indian Tribes of Eastern Peru. Cambridg Girard, Rafael 1958 Indios selvaticos de la Amazonia Peruana Mexico City. Kowalska-Lweicka, A. 1958 Dekorativnoe iskusstvo indeitsev Shipibo Sovetskaia Etnografica. 5:50-60.
- Archival Collection:
- Precolumbian Peruvian textiles and ceramics
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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