Drinking Bowl (Mucawa) with Cross and Anaconda Motifs

Arts of the Americas

1986

Artist unknown
Canelos Quichua, active 20th century
Pacayacu, Pastaza Province, Ecuador

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Culture: Canelos Quichua
Title: Drinking Bowl (Mucawa) with Cross and Anaconda Motifs
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: 10.2 × 24.1 cm (4 × 9 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Arnold H. Crane Endowment Fund
Reference Number: 2020.229

Sacha Runa Research Foundation, Urbana, IL, 1986 [purchased in Pacayacu, Ecuador, 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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