Pattern and More Pattern: Pair of Vintage Shipibo Bowls drawing of artist sketching 9 7/8" long

9 7/8" long

and elegant forms slightly tapered at the middle

appearing more (to me at least) as an irregularity than a flaw--or perhaps vaguely suggesting a broken heart

This roughly carved little man is carrying a heavy load

I'd guess it dates to the 1940s or so

Pattern and More Pattern: Pair of Vintage Shipibo Bowls drawing of artist sketching 9 7/8" longAnother 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