79. Precolumbian thong, female cache-sexe, Marajoara culture, approx. 700 - 1100 AD

Triangular ceramic piece, made to cover the female sex during ritual meetings or in a funeral context. The ceramic is fine, light beige in color; the piece has been polished and covered with a good quality white slip, over which a geometric decoration was added on the outer side. The decoration is complex, consisting of several geometric motifs, combined in an authentic style: triangles, zig-zag lines, etc., made from a dark brown color.

References

Emerson Nobre da Siva; Objects and images in the old Marajo; Sao Paolo; 2017; p. 164, p. 189; fig. 63, 79d

Dimensions

width 15 cm, height 12 cm

Research information

The object was displayed at the Barbier-Mueller Museum in Geneva and was reproduced in "Millennial Art of the Americas: from Discovery to Admiration", 1492-1992, 1992, pl. 139, p. 337.

PROVENANCE

Josef Mueller Collection, Solothurn, between 1920 and 1939 Barbier-Mueller Collection, Geneva, Inv. No. 534-23 Sotheby's auction, France, 22.03.2013, lot 100

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