Drinking Bowl (Mucawa) with Stylized Turtle Motif

Provenance

Soila Aranda, Sarayaquillu, Ecuador, 1986; sold to the Sacha Runa Research Foundation, Urbana, IL, 1986 [according to correspondence from Norman Whitten, President, Sacha Runa Research Foundation, in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2020.

Drinking Bowl (Mucawa) with Stylized Turtle Motif

Canelos Quichua

1986

Accession Number

256304

Medium

Ceramic, pigment, and shinquillu lacquer, possibly from the Brazilian Elemi (Protium heptophyllum)

Dimensions

5.7 × 14.6 cm (2 1/4 × 5 3/4 in.)

Classification

N/A

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Arnold H. Crane Endowment Fund