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Smoking the ceramic pots

Thiago da Costa Oliveira2012

Museu do Índio

Museu do Índio
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Dona Laura talks to Dona Maria while her pot, turned upside down, receives the smoke of some resinous plants that, once in contact with the porous surface of the artifact, will be fixed as a waterproofing layer.

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  • Title: Smoking the ceramic pots
  • Creator: Thiago da Costa Oliveira
  • Date Created: 2012
  • Location: São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Brazil
  • Physical Dimensions: digital
  • Provenance: Photograph taken during a workshop of pottery, held between october and november 2012 in Ucuqui-Cachoeira village, Alto Rio Negro Indigenous Territory.
  • Type: photography
  • Rights: Museu do Índio / FUNAI
  • Medium: digital photography
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