Ceramic cooking pot / serving dish
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 2018
label: Collection Date
content: 1981 to 1983
name: label: Collector
content: Ms. Emilienne Ireland
label: Donor Name
content: Ms. Emilienne Ireland
notes: label: Notes
content: Ceramic pot in the shape of an animal on its back. The pot is ovoid, with head, tail and four paws at the proper ends. The pot has been polished, then slipped black.
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. "Rhinocerus beetle container" (weukána) This pot is entirely black. I suspect it was a pot I saw in use, and asked to purchase. If I am correct, the owner washed it and painted it black, so that it would have a clean black surface, and not be sooty from the cooking fire. This could be verified by making a small scratch of the exterior. If a layer of red slip is exposed, then the pot is used.
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)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2074242
label: USNM Number
content: E435278-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cooking Pot
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 15 cm
label: Width
content: 11 cm
label: Height
content: 7 cm