Large base and body fragment from a concentric dish with a flaring annular foot
- Title:
- Large base and body fragment from a concentric dish with a flaring annular foot
- Collection:
- Selections from the Cornell Anthropology Collections
- Donor:
- Charles Fred Hartt
- Country:
- Brazil
- ID Number:
- Anthr1870_004_0084_01
- Old Catalog Number:
- 870.4.84
- File Name:
- Anthr1870_004_0084_01.jpg
- Culture:
- Native Amazonian
- Style/Period:
- Native Amazonian
- Work Type:
- dishes (vessels)
- Measurement:
- 95 x 120 (base) x 160 (rim) (millimeters, height x diameter x diameter)
- Description:
- Interior of first dish is deep bowl and has white slip with reddish paint in indeterminate geometric design.
Paste: very coarse ground sherd temper, grainy texture, no luster.
Surface finish: Ext. inferior surface rewet and hand smoothed. Interior probably smoothed prior to application of white slip and polished prior to painting
no gloss remains. Slip: Hardness: 3 Thickness: <.5 mm Color: 10 YR 8/4 Decoration: White sip is covered with indeterminate geometric pattern in dark reddish grey paint ( 10 R 3/1). Firing: Red incomplete from grey core (10 YR 4.5/1) to orange (2.5 YR 6/4). Comment: Meggers and Evans claim that this form occurs as burial urn covers at Pacoval and Ilha dos Bichos. - Bibliography:
- Meggers and Evans, 1957
Palmatary, 1950 - Archival Collection:
- Amazonian ceramics
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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