Blackware and Drinking Ware Bowl (Mucawa) with Butterflies, and Anaconda and Turtle Motifs

2002

Estela Dagua (Jacinta Esthela Dagua Malaber)
Canelos Quichua, 1951–?
Puyo, Pastaza Province, Ecuador

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

Artist: Estela Dagua
Culture: Canelos Quichua
Title: Blackware and Drinking Ware Bowl (Mucawa) with Butterflies, and Anaconda and Turtle Motifs
Places: Ecuador (Object made in), Pastaza (Object made in)
Date: 2002
Medium: Ceramic, pigment, and shinquillu lacquer, possibly from the Brazilian Elemi (Protium heptophyllum)
Dimensions: 10.2 × 21.6 cm (4 × 8 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Arnold H. Crane Endowment Fund
Reference Number: 2020.233

Estela Dagua (Jacinta Esthela Dagua Malaber, 1951–?), Puyo, Ecuador, 2002; sold to the Sacha Runa Research Foundation, Urbana, IL, 2002 [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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