Ceramic cooking pot / serving dish, small
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. The pot is round with protrusions on the rim. The pot has been polished, then slipped red on the exterior and 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. "Crab container" (yelátukána). A dish of this size is typically used for seasonings, such as salt, crushed peppers, or a mix of the two, or perhaps to cook something small, such as oily fish liver. Note this crab has 10 legs arranged somewhat unsymmetrically. Pots sometimes are exceedingly accurate in representing the animal, while at other times the representation is more fanciful. Perhaps it's a matter of showing the essential features of the creature, and "lots of legs all around the body" is certainly a good way to represent a crab.
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: E435302-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cooking Pot
physicalDescription: label: Diameter
content: 15 cm
label: Height
content: 8 cm