Gourd Central Latin American Catalog
Peruvian Engraved and Pyroengraved Gourds
(matés burilados y pyroburilados)
The Peruvian art of engraving gourds goes back 4000 years. Our Peruvian gourds are carefully selected from the work of contemporary artisans. Very simple tools...an awl, a knife, and eucalyptus embers for pyroengraving... are used to produce remarkably detailed designs.
Peruvian engraved gourd; P-mate; $12.00
Barrettes
Peruvian pyroengraved barrettes.
Peruvian pyroengraved barrettes. Two styles; geometric designs suggesting the Nazca culture; and scenes from life in mountain villages.
- Geometric design; $5.00
- Traditional design; $5.00
Earrings
Pyroengraved gourd earrings; small gourd disk (about 1/2Ó) with Peruvian design, porcupine quills, surgical steel wire.
Earrings $5.00
Peruvian gourd animals
Creatures of all sorts real and imagined burned and engraved on small hardshell
gourds.
- Peruvian gourd animals $8.00
Afro-American Arts of the Suriname Rain Forest
Afro-American Arts of the Suriname Rain Forest; by Sally Price (1980). Catalog
of the UCLA Museum of Cultural HistoryÕs collection of Maroon (escaped slave)
art from Suriname. Extensive coverage of calabash (tree gourd) artifacts and
design in their cultural context, as well as textiles, woodcarving, etc. Profusely
illustrated.
Afro-American Arts of the Suriname Rain Forest; $24.95
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Updated 7/19/97
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