Shipibo Clay Jar with Hieroglyphic Faces
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A clay jar (olla) from the Amazon Shipibo people (Peru), decorated with two faces, unglazed but waterproofed with tree resins, collected 1977, 18.5 x 18 cm. A.B.: 'The Shibipo pots were bought from the Peruvian villagers, who made them, when we were travelling the whole of the Amazon river length, in 1978. Their language became ' hieroglyphic ' within their images, their brushes the chewed ends of small branches. They are now mass produced for the international market, thereby losing their meaning, and precision care. The price of maintaining one s integrity
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