Pattern and More Pattern: Pair of Vintage Shipibo Bowls drawing of artist sketching This roughly carved little man

This roughly carved little man is carrying a heavy load

I fell madly in love with so called "Bactrian princesses" -- small ancient stone carved figurines made between the late third and early second millennia B

9 7/8" long

) All carved from one piece of wood and really quite a thing

Pattern and More Pattern: Pair of Vintage Shipibo Bowls drawing of artist sketching This roughly carved little manAnother 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