Ama Llulla, Ama Shua, Ama Quilla Vessel

1986

Rebeca Gualinga (Rebeca Hualinga)
Canelos Quichua, active 20th century
Puyo, Pastaza Province, Ecuador

Status: On View, Gallery 136
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Rebeca Gualinga
Culture: Canelos Quichua
Title: Ama Llulla, Ama Shua, Ama Quilla Vessel, Storage Jar for Woman's Personal Things Symbolizing Protest
Places: Ecuador (Object made in), Pastaza (Object made in)
Date: 1986
Medium: Ceramic, pigment, and shinquillu lacquer, possibly from the Brazilian Elemi (Protium heptophyllum)
Dimensions: 20.3 × 20.3 cm (8 × 8 in.)
Credit Line: Arnold H. Crane Endowment Fund
Reference Number: 2020.226

Rebeca Gualinga (Rebeca Hualinga), Puyo, Ecuador, 1986; sold to the Sacha Runa Research Foundation, Urbana, IL, 1986 [according to correspondence from Norman Whitten, President, Sacha Runa Research Foundation, in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2020.

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