About this artwork
This jaguar, or otorongo in Quechua, was created as part of Vasquez Yui’s series The Council of the Mother Spirits of the Animals, which advanced a spiritual understanding of ecology. The feline confronts our human gaze, as if acknowledging the devastating losses of habitat in the Amazon Jungle. The cat’s spotted fur is elaborately rendered in finely incised and painted patterns called kené. These designs represent worldviews and energy pathways and can be evoked in song to promote healing.
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Status
- On View, Gallery 136
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Department
- Arts of the Americas
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Artist
- Celia Vasquez Yui
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Culture
- Shipibo-Conibo
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Title
- Otorongo
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Places
- Peru (Artist's nationality:), Pucallpa (Object made in)
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Date
- 2020
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Medium
- Coil-built clay with pre-fire slip-paint and vegetal resins
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Dimensions
- 58.5 × 33.1 × 44.5 cm (23 × 13 × 17 1/2 in.)
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Credit Line
- Arts of the Americas Discretionary Fund
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Reference Number
- 2022.161
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Copyright
- © The Shipibo Conibo Center. Courtesy of the artist, Salon 94, and The Shipibo Conibo Center.
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