Description: This bowl shows age and use, with a couple chips around the top edge. The Shipibo-Conibo, an indigenous people living along the Ucayali river in the Amazon basin east of the Andes, have a long tradition of creating pottery and textiles with patterns that reflect their spiritual beliefs. The labyrinthine geometric designs on pottery pieces like this one have a relationship to their cosmology, and also to sound: the ethnologist Angelika Gebhart-Sayer has termed these patterns “visual music”...“the Shipibo can listen to a song or chant by looking at the designs, and inversely paint a pattern by listening to a song…” Further, as opposed to the being confined to the surface of a vessel or textile, to the Shipibo "the patterns extend far beyond these borders and permeate the entire world.” (credit: Howard G. Charing; source: Indigo Arts.)
Price: 45 USD
Location: Topeka, Kansas
End Time: 2024-12-18T17:02:03.000Z
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Provenance: Amazon Rainforest
Country/Region of Manufacture: Peru
Handmade: Yes
Culture: Peruvian
California Prop 65 Warning: N/A
