Ceramic cooking pot / serving dish
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: Ceramic pot in the shape of a person on its back. The pot is round with head, and four limbs at the proper ends. 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. "Ceremonial mask spirit container" (yakuityána) Made by Talatalakumatumpa and his wife Maikiru. From field label: "yakuityana (Awariya ukitsityana)." Awariya was the name given to Nat. "Awariya ukitsityana" glosses as "container in the form of Awariya's nose" which, on the pot, is portrayed as very prominent. Nat's nose is not prominent by U.S. standards, of course, but the Wauja were not yet accustomed to European faces in those days. Not sure whether this light-hearted joke was made by me, Talatalakumatumpa or Maikiru. From another field label: "T & MAIK 12.82 yakuityana". Yakui is described as "apapa atai" (monster or spirit). Appendages by T, body by MAIK.
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: E435308-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cooking Pot
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 20 cm
label: Width
content: 16.5 cm
label: Height
content: 7 cm