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Long stool, carved roughly into the shape of a jaguar from a single piece of honey coloured wood and covered with a design of light brown square shapes, was made for the tourist market. Back legs are thinner than front legs and there is a small carved tail protruding from the back end. Small holes have been burned into the wood for eyes, ears and nostrils, and a wedge shaped slit forms the mouth.
Tall orange clay jar on circular pedestal foot has four heads positioned on its shoulder below a long neck. Lower part of jar is painted a dark reddish brown, the upper part and faces are light beige. Black figures stand between the heads and elaborate black facial tattoos decorate the hollow heads with holes at nose and brow.
Small clay dish in the shape of a canoe, pointed at the front and rounded at the stern. A border of repeated triangles is painted in black and red over cream on the interior and in black over pale red on the exterior. The artist signature is painted onto the floor and on the bottom of the dish are four large circles.
Small clay jar (a), painted with reddish brown, black and cream geometric motifs, has a shiny lacquered finish. It is bulbous shaped at the bottom with a flat base and a long neck that narrows slightly to mouth. There is a long stopper-like lid (b).
Triple wood crucifix. Onto a roughly carved, beveled and painted rectangle of wood have been nailed two crosses, the back one of which has another small bamboo cross nailed onto the top of the centre post. The larger cross is made from a naturally three-branched piece of wood that has been carved square with a diamond shape at each of the three tips and painted dark green and red with silver leaf trim. At the centre of the branch, below a carved red heart, hangs a small card depicting the Virgin, Child and two saints behind a rectangle of silver trimmed glass.
Small burnished brown and black pot with flat base. A lid (part b), made from circular piece of gourd with small hole to one edge, has been sealed on with a dark resin-like substance that still adheres in part around rim of both pot and lid.
Large squat round pot has flared lip, hint of a neck, wider shoulder and walls that slope down to a rounded bottom. Beneath a highly polished finish, burnishing lines show up dark black against the light yellowish brown clay and there is a large black patch from the firing.
Breastplate of a Corpus Christi dancer's costume with shoulder straps and rope waist ties, made from pink, red and brown scraps of material. Sewn onto the front is a square of dark maroon material bordered with silver foil, in the centre of which is a three dimensional wooden lamb covered with a blanket, painted entirely in gold and adorned with tiny metal objects, strings of blue, green, silver and fake pearl beads, and gold foil.
Scene in a pottery workshop made of painted and highly glazed white clay in tones of black, blue and green. On a square platform, one figure kneads the clay, another carries the balls of clay in a bowl, another beats the clay on the floor with a bat. The potter sits behind a table throwing a pot on a pottery wheel. In one corner lies a small dog.
Glazed pitcher has bands of green, blue and black floral elements, zigzags interspersed with dots, and dots on limey yellow background. The central band has architectural-like elements that divide words made up of dotted letters (PALO? ME__? ELMirA ?) The handle has concave impressions down the sides and dots in the centre.