DepartmentLatin America

Plate

NamePlate

Maker Sixto Sequil

Datec. 1958

Place madeCochas Chico, Junin, Peru, South America

MediumGourd, pigments

Dimensions3 9/16 × 15 1/16 × 2 3/4 in. (9 × 38.3 × 7 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of the Girard Foundation Collection, A.1979.44.1

Object numberA.1979.44.1

Collections

Andean Folk Art

DescriptionCarved, incised, pyrographed (wood burned) gourd. A landscape is depicted: sky, mountains and hills with airplane, condor, bus, car, train, truck, people and llamas walking at bottom. Cross on a hill in center. Zig-zag border around edge.

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