Ceramic cooking pot / serving dish
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 2018
label: Collection Date
content: 25 Oct 1982
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 three limbs at the proper ends. The pot has been polished, then slipped red on the exterior and black on the top and interior. Incised features on the head.
label: Notes
content: Notes by the collector, Emilienne Ireland: "Ancestor spirit container" (yérupóhokána)Low-fired clay, red slip exterior, interior painted with a mixture of juice of a vine, soot, and water. ESPECIALLY FINE SPECIMEN. This design is inspired by the mysterious pottery sherds the Wauja find in their area, which they insist could only have been made by spirits, because they knew how to made pots with much thinner walls than the Wauja know how to make. Note the design of the pot does indeed echo designs on some of the old pottery sherds. Made by Apairumatumpalu, female elder and wife of Karaputantumpa, mother of Itsautaku, Katsiparu, and others. Karaputantumpa was younger brother of Chief Walakuyawatumpa. At the time she made this pot, Apairumatumpalu was widowed of Karaputantumpa, and had married Kasueletumpa in a polygamous marriage, with Kuta as her co-wife. From field label: "Apairuma yerupohokana 10.25.82 no. 10".
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: E435321-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cooking Pot
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 17 cm
label: Width
content: 13.5 cm
label: Height
content: 6 cm