Drinking Bowl (Mucawa) with Stylized Turtle Motif

Arts of the Americas

1986

Soila Aranda
Canelos Quichua, active 20th century
Sarayaquillu, Pastaza Province, Ecuador

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Soila Aranda
Culture: Canelos Quichua
Title: Drinking Bowl (Mucawa) with Stylized Turtle Motif
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: 5.7 × 14.6 cm (2 1/4 × 5 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Arnold H. Crane Endowment Fund
Reference Number: 2020.243

Soila Aranda, Sarayaquillu, 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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