Ceramic ceremonial vessel
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 2018
label: Collection Date
content: Dec 1982
name: label: Collector
content: Ms. Emilienne Ireland
label: Donor Name
content: Ms. Emilienne Ireland
notes: label: Notes
content: Double ceramic pot. The base of this pot is enclosed, with something inside that rattles. The pot has been polished, then slipped red on the exterior and painted black on the top and interior.
label: Notes
content: Notes by the collector, Emilienne Ireland: Low-fired clay, red slip exterior, interior painted with a mixture of juice of a vine, soot, and water. Vessel of the type used in the ear-piercing ceremony, pohokai, the rite of passage for adolescent boys. The vessel contains small pieces of clay sealed within its lower chamber, allowing the vessel to be used as a rattle, and thereby "speak" during the sacred rite. Made by Kaapi (later called Katsiparu), a highly accomplished woman, who was generally considered to be one of the best ceramists. She is daughter of Karaputantumpan and Apairumatumpalu, and sister of the shaman Itsautaku. Karaputantumpan was younger brother of the great chief Walakuyawatumpa, and served as co-chief with him until his death (probably in the 1970s). Apairumatumpalu was daughter of the renowned chief Tupatari, who served for several decades, until his death in the great measles epidemic of 1956.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Oct 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Piyulaga village, Mato Grosso, Brazil, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Wauja (Waurá)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2074242
label: USNM Number
content: E435313-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Vessel
physicalDescription: label: Diameter
content: 12 cm
label: Height
content: 11.5 cm