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Newsletter cover: an Andean potter shapes a vessel with a child beside her

Newsletter

Cerámica ancestral de Raqchi

A Sañu newsletter written by Máximo Amaru Mamani and Sayda Choque Chuquihuanca, with a cover by artist Efraín Huillca Quispe. It covers the history of pottery in Cusco and Raqchi, and the process of the Amaru family workshop. It is in Spanish.

Pages
20, plus covers
Language
Spanish
Format
PDF, 2.3 MB

Contents

  1. Pottery and the potter's craftp. 1
  2. Pre-Inca pottery: Marcavalle, Chanapata, Qotakalli, Killke and Lucrep. 1 to 2
  3. Inca pottery: trades, shapes and decorationp. 3 to 5
  4. Iconography: birds, llamas, butterflies and scenesp. 5 to 8
  5. Firing in an open kiln or dung bedp. 9
  6. Raqchi and the Temple of Wiracochap. 10
  7. Background of Raqchi potteryp. 11 to 12
  8. Tools and making at the Amaru workshopp. 12 to 16
  9. Natural paints and firingp. 17 to 19
  10. Innovation in Raqchi potteryp. 19 to 20

A few pages

Page 9: firing in an open kiln, with photos of Raqchi workshops in the 1980sPage 15: the steps of shaping an aríbaloPage 17: colored earths and natural pigments