Festival Drinking Vessel: Catfish Effigy

1997.15.0059

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Artifact Identification Festival Drinking Vessel: Catfish Effigy   (1997.15.0059)
Classification/
Nomenclature
  1. Communication Artifacts
  2. :
  3. Ceremonial Artifacts
  4. :
  5. N/A
Artist/Maker Unknown
Geographic Location
Period/Date 1972
Culture Canelos Quichua

Physical Analysis

Dimension 1 (Length) 20.6 cm
Dimension 2 (Width) 6.9 cm
Dimension 3 (Height) 6.6 cm
Weight 170 g
Measuring Remarks Weight measurement originally 6.0 oz.

Width from one fore-fin to the other.

Height to top of fin.
Materials Ceramic--Stoneware, Pigment
Manufacturing Processes Handbuilding, Firing, Painting, Rubbing
Munsell Color Information waived

Research Remarks

Published Description N/A
Description N/A
Comparanda N/A
Bibliography

Norman E. Whitten and Dorothea Scott Whitten. Puyo Runa Imagery and Power in Moderan Amazonia.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. page 155.

Artifact History

Archaeological Data N/A
Credit Line/Dedication Gift of Norman E. and Dorothea S. Whitten
Reproduction No
Reproduction Information N/A

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