Horn (animal part)
65-10-191
From: Peru | Rio Curanja
Curatorial Section: American
Native Name | Pun Iti |
Object Number | 65-10-191 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Cashinahua |
Provenience | Peru | Rio Curanja |
Culture Area | Amazonia |
Section | American |
Materials | Clay | Pigment |
Description | Clay; small round bowl; long slender neck; large hole in bowl; light brown clay painted with red rectilinear designs, also lightly incised rectilinear designs; one smudge mark; broken and repaired; blown through small hole. Used as noisemaker for any ritual, mainly fertility. |
Length | 15.5 cm |
Thickness | 0.9 cm |
Outside Diameter | 5.9 cm |
Credit Line | Purchased from Kenneth M. Kensinger, 1965 |
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