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A potter polishes a ceramic piece
Thiago da Costa Oliveira2014
Museu Nacional dos Povos Indígenas
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
A potter uses a inajá seed to polish a ceramic pot. The material is an alternative to the doowhe stone, used with the same function, but much harder to obtain.
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- Title: A potter polishes a ceramic piece
- Creator: Thiago da Costa Oliveira
- Date Created: 2014
- Location: São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Brazil
- Physical Dimensions: digital
- Provenance: Photograph taken during a pottery production workshop held in june 2014, in São Joaquim village, medium Aiairi river, Alto Rio Negro Indigenous Territory.
- Type: photography
- Rights: Museu do Índio / FUNAI
- Medium: digital photography
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