vessel, pot, pot

Description:

Large pottery pot, constructed by putting clay strips together and printing them together. The clay is impoverished with sand, and the colour to judge has been burned at low temperature on open fire. Porous. The pot has a convex bottom. The pot has a shoulder, with a marked angle to the neck. Decorated with clay application, consisting of two grips and applied rings made of clay and a wave line a so-called. The Schlanger Serpent. The pot is painted polychrome after burning, with anthropomorphic/zoomorpha figures reminding a little of octopuses in white and black against red background. At the shoulder decorated with a painted band in red and black and at the mouth painted with red triangular figures with black edge. The pot has broken and stored with stickers.

Location:

Papua New Guinea

Format:

image

Collections:

Museum of Ethnography

Content partner:

Museum of Ethnography

Availability:

Not specified