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. Unlike the others the caiman is on its front. The pot is ovoid, with head, tail and four paws at the proper ends. The pot has been polished, then slipped red on the exterior and painted black on the top and interior. The exterior has been over-painted with black paint and etched on the tail, though the head is not painted at all. The black interior is also over-painted with brown spots.
label: Notes
content: Notes by the collector, Emilienne Ireland: Low-fired clay; red slip exterior painted with geometric signs; interior painted with a mixture of juice of a vine, soot, and water, then ornamented with a stippled design probably representing the appearance of the caiman's hide. "Caiman container" (yákakána) ESPECIALLY FINE SPECIMEN. Head is very well modeled. Note the fish painted swimming toward the caiman's mouth. Note also that the pot is designed so that the caiman is depicted belly-down, with with limbs raised and spread out to the side, as if floating, which is exactly what caimans do. Painted with designs inside and out.
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: E435269-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cooking Pot
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 35 cm
label: Width
content: 212 cm
label: Height
content: 11 cm