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Lot 179

Kalina or Carib People Pottery Vessel, Suriname River Region, South America, 19th century

Kalina or Carib People Pottery Vessel, Suriname River Region, South America, 19th century
Lot 179 Details
Kalina or Carib People Pottery Vessel, Suriname River Region, South America, 19th century

collector's inventory number on the underside, accompanied by a hand written inventory card, and photograph of Van Steenhardt Carre field collecting ca. 1950
height 6.5 in — 16.5 cm, diameter 3.75 in — 9.5 cm

Estimate $200-$300

Realised: $400
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Kalina or Carib People Pottery Vessel, Suriname River Region, South America, 19th century
  • Kalina or Carib People Pottery Vessel, Suriname River Region, South America, 19th century
  • Kalina or Carib People Pottery Vessel, Suriname River Region, South America, 19th century
  • Kalina or Carib People Pottery Vessel, Suriname River Region, South America, 19th century
Provenance:

Van Steenhardt Carre, Amsterdam, NL

Note:

Ceramics of this type are made of crushed and powdered clay mixed with the ashes of the bark of kepi-trees. This ash composition makes vessels slightly porous so that they exude a small amount of fluid and through the evaporation keep their contents cool.

This vessel was collected by antique and ethnographic collector Van Steenhardt Carre who collected in South America and Indonesia in the 1940s and '50s. Carre sold several works to Canadian institutions including the University of Toronto, and Royal Ontario Museum in 1965 and 1967. [1]

[1] Chief Accountant’s Office University of Toronto to Van Steenhardt Carre, 26/04/1965, Letter, Personal papers of Van Steenhardt Carre; Mrs. K.B. Brett, Curator Department of Textiles, Royal Ontario Museum to Mrs. A. Carre, 03/11/1967, Letter, Personal papers of Van Steenhardt Carre

For a closely related example collected in 1925 by explorer Alpheus Hyatt Verrill (1871-1954) see the collections of the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian, No. 13/9567

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