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Quémbo or small drinking pot with painted geometric decoration, coiled and bonfire-fired. Women make and decorate the pots. The decoration may represent the visions seen by men under the influence of a drug taken as part of a ritual. Made by the Shipibo people of the Peruvian Amazon, probably between 1875 and 1925. Given by Prof. R J Brocklehurst, 1965.