Rim sherds of large vessel with truncated conoidal lower section
- Title:
- Rim sherds of large vessel with truncated conoidal lower section
- Collection:
- Selections from the Cornell Anthropology Collections
- Donor:
- Charles Fred Hartt
- Site:
- Arari, Lago, Pará, Norte, Brazil
- Location:
- Arari, Lago, Pará, Norte, Brazil
- Country:
- Brazil
- ID Number:
- Anthr1870_004_0005_01
- Old Catalog Number:
- 870.4.5
- File Name:
- Anthr1870_004_0005_01.jpg
- Culture:
- Native Amazonian
- Style/Period:
- Pre-Columbian Amazonian styles and periods
- Work Type:
- vessels (containers)
ceramics (objects) - Measurement:
- >120 x 480 (body) x 60 (rim) x 25 (rim) x 18 (wall) (millimeters, height x diameter x diameter x thickness x thickness)
- Description:
- Ext. and int. slipped white. Ext. incised in curvilinear S motif with, red retrace. Both paint and slip are highly erroded on some fragments.
Paste: very coarse ground sherd temper, grainy texture, no luster.
Surface finish: initial surfaces probably smoothedwith hard object prior to application of smooth white slip. Exterior incised for line effect then retraced with red paint.
Slip: hardness: 3
thickness: ^.5mm
color: 7.5 yr 7/4 Decoration: Execution of S and step motivs by the use of curvilinear and rectangular parallel incised lines. Incision mostly for line effect though some areas of negative effect between the motivs. some of the uniformly 1mm thick incisions have red paint (2.5 YR 4/4) , and all incised areas of negative effect are red. Firing: red core ( 5 YR 6/1) to orange (2.5 YR 6/6) - Bibliography:
- Meggers and Evans, 1957: pp. 366
Palmatary, 1950: pp. 298 - Archival Collection:
- Amazonian ceramics
- Format:
- Image
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