Pattern and More Pattern: Pair of Vintage Shipibo Bowls dog photographs Machine / Manikin

Machine / Manikin

The blocks are in great condition

but is tightly tied to the next piece with the string hardened

and the faint outline of a tail on the reverse

Pattern and More Pattern: Pair of Vintage Shipibo Bowls dog photographs Machine / ManikinAnother pair of vintage Shipibo bowls this week, no faces on these but lots of beautiful pattern. This pottery is created by women of Shipibo tribe of the Peruvian Amazon; as I understand it, the maze like hand painted designs on the larger bowl here are sophisticated interpretations of their cosmic beliefs, including that the flow of the jungle rivers follow the same course as the stars. One does not see Shipibo pottery dating to earlier than the