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Effigy Jar: Nungui, Spirit of Garden Soil and Pottery Clay

2001.05.0115

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Artifact Identification Effigy Jar: Nungui, Spirit of Garden Soil and Pottery Clay   (2001.05.0115)
Classification/
Nomenclature
  1. Communication Artifacts
    2. :
  2. Ceremonial Artifacts
    3. :
  3. Holiday Objects
Artist/Maker Rosaura Gualinga, Rio Llushin
Geographic Location
Period N/A
Date 1975
Culture Canelos Quichua
Location On Exhibitin the South America exhibit

Physical Analysis

Dimension 1 (Height) 12.9 cm
Dimension 2 (Diameter) 8.5 cm
Dimension 3 (Diameter) 5.8 cm
Weight 289 g
Measuring Remarks Under Review
Materials Ceramic, Pigment
Manufacturing Processes Painting, Forming, Glazing

Research Remarks

Description N/A
Published Description N/A
Bibliography

Whitten, Norman and Dorothea. From Myth to Creation: Art from Amazonian Ecuador. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1988.

Photo of item in Eugene Dillenburg's Exhibit Gallery Webpage, July 3, 2005.

Whitten, Norman E. Jr. Sicuanga Runa: The Other Side of Development in Amazonian Ecuador. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1985. P.131

Artifact History

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

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