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Oomaphitako, a vegetable varnish used for finishing of the ceramic pots
Thiago da Costa Oliveira2014
Museu do Índio
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The women who live in the campinarana areas (amazonian semiarid thorn forest) collect vegetable varnish from oomaphitako leavevs in order to produce sticks like the one shown in the picture, which is to be employed in the finishing of the decorated pots.
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- Title: Oomaphitako, a vegetable varnish used for finishing of the ceramic pots
- 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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