Festival Effigy: Nunghui, Spirit of Garden Soil and Pottery Clay

1997.15.0162

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Artifact Identification Festival Effigy: Nunghui, Spirit of Garden Soil and Pottery Clay   (1997.15.0162)
Classification/
Nomenclature
  1. Communication Artifacts
  2. :
  3. Ceremonial Artifacts
  4. :
  5. N/A
Artist/Maker Teresa Dagua, Theresa Dagua
Geographic Location
Period N/A
Date 1973
Culture Canelos Quichua
Location On Exhibitin the North America exhibit

Physical Analysis

Dimension 1 (Height) 17.3 cm
Dimension 2 (Diameter) 10.7 cm
Dimension 3 (N/A) N/A
Weight 327 g
Measuring Remarks Under Review
Materials Ceramic--Stoneware, Animal--Feather, Pigment
Manufacturing Processes Handbuilding, Firing, Painting, Rubbing, Piercing

Research Remarks

Description N/A
Published Description N/A
Bibliography

Whitten, Norman E. Jr. Sicuanga Runa: The Other Side of Development in Amazonian Ecuador. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1985. P. 61.

Artifact History

Credit Line/Dedication Gift of Norman E. and Dorothea S. Whitten
Reproduction No

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