The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
Beer Container (Máhuetan)
c. 1940
Diameter: 79 cm (31 1/8 in.); height: 68 cm (26 3/4 in.)
Bequest of Elizabeth M. Skala 1992.129
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
This jar is a beer keg used during festivals in the Shipibo-Conibo area of Amazonian Peru.Description
Jars like this one are used as beer kegs during multi-day feasts. The shape and colors may reference a tiered cosmos, graduating from the earthen tones of the dark underworld to the bright, light-filled celestial realm. Perhaps extending this idea, the brown, tapered base is buried in the earth to keep the vessel’s contents cool.- Gebhart-Sayer, Angelika. The Cosmos Encoiled: Indian Art of the Peruvian Amazon. New York: Center for Inter-American Relations, 1984. p. 11Turner, Evan H. "The Year in Review for 1992." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 2 (1993). p. 76 www.jstor.org
- Stories From Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).The Cosmos Encoiled: Indian Art of the Peruvian Amazon, Center for Inter- American Relations, New York, NY (February 15- April 29, 1984).
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