Lovely Older Vintage Hand-painted Peruvian Shipibo-Conibo Pottery Vessel ex voto painting and such a singular one

and such a singular one

and which makes a tremendously satisfying spooling sound when the handle is turned) would be threaded through the hook at the tip of the arrow and then dropped through a hole drilled in the ice

9 1/4" x 5 1/2" and in good condition

I'd guess 1960s-70s or so on the beads

Lovely Older Vintage Hand-painted Peruvian Shipibo-Conibo Pottery Vessel ex voto painting and such a singular oneI've found a few pieces of Shipibo pottery over the years and always kept an eye out for them. This pottery is created by women of Shipibo tribe of the Peruvian Amazon; as I understand it, the maze like hand painted designs are sophisticated interpretations of their cosmic beliefs, including that the flow of the jungle rivers follow the same course as the stars. One does not see Shipibo pottery dating to earlier than the 20th century; I believe this