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Bolivia - Bull Drinking Vessel
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Bull Drinking Vessel
Type of Object: Ceremonial Object
Materials: Ceramic
Measurements: Size varies from 15 cm. to 30 cm.
Date or Period: Colonial (1533-1825)
Maker: Quechua and Aymara
Designated List Section: VI A Colonial and Republican Ceramics -- Ceremonial Drinking Vessels
Date of Import Restriction: 12/07/01
Photograph: National Museum of Ethnography and Folklore (MUSEF)
Copyright: National Museum of Ethnography and Folklore (MUSEF)
 
Description of Designated List Category Subject to Import Restrictions:
Containers and serving vessels used in the ceremonial context of chicha drinking. In post-Columbian times these are hard ceramics with glassy surfaces resulting from the application of a mineral glaze. May be brown, green, blue, red or any combination of colors. Vary in size and shape from handled jars pitchers, cups, and vases, to animal-shapes (bull, tiger, llama, hoof).

This example is of a animal-shaped ceramic in the form of a bull, in the upper part of the bull there is a hole or the mouth of the vessel. It is consolidated with leather rope. The vessel is used in the "challas" (drinking of "chicha") during ritual offerings.
Keywords:
animal-shaped, bull, drinking vessel, glazed, jar,

 


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