Mittwoch, 12. Januar 2022

Anthropological Artcraft from Colombia



Curi

Totumo-Fruit from Calabash Tree Crescentia cujete engraved and painted as Curi Rodent Animal (Cavia anolaime / Cavy or Guinea Pig)

Acquired from Mrs. Maria del Socorro Artcraft at San Alejo Artisan market, Medellin May 1997








Guaca Precolombina "Mujer Embarazada"

Ancient "precolombian" indigenous "grave gift" or grave good excavated and distributed by an "Guaquero" from Southern Colombian San Agustin indigenous reserve that represents an pregnant woman. 

The ceramic was acquired for CID Institute Museum in August 1985 in San Agustin, Huila, Southern Colombia








Homemade Flower Candle 

Acquired from Mrs. Maria del Socorro Artcraft at San Alejo Artisan market, Medellin May 1997











Tagua Nut

Seed from Ivory Palm Phytelephas seemanni  used as so called vegetable ivory in traditional artcraft in Colombia, mostly from Santander region

Acquired from Mrs. Maria del Socorro Artcraft at San Alejo Artisan market, Medellin May 1997








Frog Stones

Traditional Artcraft Sculpture Pattern from San Agustin / Huila / Southern Colombia acquired for CID Institute Museum in July / August 1985








Pink Amazonas Dolphin

Wooden Dolphin Sculpture / Donation of Mrs. Zanger-Montoya 2014








Ocean Dolphin

Wooden Dolphin Sculpture / Donation of Mrs. Zanger-Montoya 2016







Chiva

Authentic ceramic artcraft model of traditional rural open countryside passenger and merchandise transport busses called "Chiva" 






Precolombian Sculpture "Afro-American Woman" 

Donation to CID Institute Museum by Dr. Mario Montoya Hernandez, Tamesis, September 1985







Cazique from Huitoto Indian Tribe

Handmade Sculpture made by Mr. Aurelio, Chief of Tribe of a Huitoto Indian Community from La Chorrera, Colombian Caqueta Forest







Pilandera

Wooden sculpture of a Woman working on a mortar handmade by Luis Alberto Jimenez Artesano, Talla en Maderas de Naranjo y Guacamayo, Vereda Tumbabarreto, Parcialidad Indigena Lomaprieta,. Riosucio, Caldas, Colombia








Totumo

Totumo-Fruit from Calabash Tree Crescentia cujete







Copper Tin with COATL - Flying Dragon Design

Flying serpents or dragons in precolombian design represent helpforce personalities of godesses. The tin is a present of Mrs. Luz Beatriz Gaviria to CID Institute Museum from 1991







Precolombian Sculpture in Cornalina Stone

The precolombian godess miniature from Cornalina Stone was donated to CID Institute Museum by Mrs. Myriam Reina from Santa Marta PUERTO LIBRE and KORALES Artcraft Stores in 1991 as "Rana Tairona" Necklace Pendant but represents more probable a precolombian personality type similar as the San Agustin culture statues.






San Agustin Godess

 donation to CID Institute Museum Ethnological Artcraft Collection from Mrs. Dra. Sol Montoya in 1983






Recent Indigenous Statue Ceramic

a present from Dra. Sol Montoya to the parents of the CID Institute Museum Director during the 1990ies








Recent Indigenous Head Ceramic

a present from Dra. Sol Montoya to the parents of the CID Institute Museum Director during the 1990ies









Turtle

Wooden Sculpture with traditional "Varniz de Pasto" natural colour design from Southern Colombia

a donation to CID Institute Museum Ethnological Artcraft Collection from Mrs. Dra. Sol Montoya in 2008







Maraca

Maraca rattle made from Calabash Tree fruit for rhythmic music making in traditional colombian music

a donation to CID Institute Museum Ethnological Artcraft Collection from Mrs. Dra. Sol Montoya in 1997







Double-Maraca

from Calabash-Tree fruit and Bamboo with skin covered tambours







Indigenous Arrows and  Quiver from Cuna Indians

a donation to CID Institute Museum Ethnological Artcraft Collection from Mrs. Dra. Sol Montoya in 2003







Indigenous Water Bottle from Calabash Tree Fruit

a donation to CID Institute Museum Ethnological Artcraft Collection from Mrs. Dra. Sol Montoya in 1997







Raffia Basket from Cuna Indians

Bogota 1985








Armadillo

a donation to CID Institute Museum Ethnological Artcraft Collection from Mrs. Dra. Sol Montoya in 2021








Casita Paisa

Model of a typical Paisa- or Antioquenian-Countryside-Family House Facade from Medellin- Antioquia, a decorative object seen in nearly every household of the Colombian Antioquia Department.  

Antioquenians, that nickname themselves "Paisas", wear as typical folclore dressing the woolen "Ruana"-cape  and the leather "Carriel"-shoulder bag, both fixed in the veranda fences frontside. Also the roof-shingle structure and the red-.white colouring are typical construction and decoration elements of Antioquian countryside houses, The veranda decorated with plants is the traditional resting site in the mostly sunshine filled evening hours of the colombian region that is considered as area of permanent springtime. 








Totumo Drinking Bottle

A totumo fruit in a braided bast net with shoulder strap for use as beverage recipient during outdoor activities. The water carrier was acquired by CID Institute during the first Colombia journey from June until September 1985 and used during several-day excursions as water storage reserve, for example in Tairona National Park and in Purace Volcane Reserve








Wooden Inlay Casket

The wooden chest carries intarsia probably made from brass metal plates and wire. On it´s lid are set-in tendrils and leafs, on it´s side margins rhombus and circular patterns. 

The chest carries reliquia from familiar importance. It contains a set of red seeds, probably from Ormosia macrocalyx (Coralillo), a short seed-chain element with strongly scented fragrance seeds, a seed chain with "Ojo de Buey"-Talisman ( from Mucuna urens ), a set of lemon-fruit shapes glass-artcrafts, as oceanside reliquias three parts of black fan coral, a sea-snail, a stoner-coral and a vertebral fisbone and at least a square cut of a blue-white-browne-orange coloured tissue, printed with cryptic symbols and patterns that remember Peruvian Quippus

The chest and her content belonged as impoirtant personal reliquia to Mrs. Maria Christina Montoya Bonilla and was presented to the nowadays CID Institute´s director the first days of July 1985 in Bogotá Chapinero.























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