Beautiful Antique Fine Silver Ingot ANDES INDIAN Longhorn Bull Cup TM10079

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Beautiful Antique Fine Silver Ingot ANDES INDIAN Longhorn Bull Cup TM10079:
$295.00

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AN AUTHENTIC FINE-SILVER ANDEAN INDIAN LIBATION CUP
FROM BOLIVIA

Inventory Number: TM10079
Country of Origin: Plurinational State of Bolivia.
Basic Description: An authentic indigenous Native American, hand-crafted ingot silver cup.
Native Name: Awarint q\'iru.
Region: Altiplano, Departments of Oruro/La Paz.
Language group: Aymara, Quechua and Uruqilla.
Approximate Age: Antique [over 50 years old], early to mid-20th century.
Materials: Fine (.900 to .925) silver.
Approximate Size: 4 inches wide (handle to handle); the bowl is about 3 inches in diameter; the height of one bird from the ground is 1 3/8 inches; the height of the other is 1 5/8 inches.
Colors: Silver. As in photos.
Condition: Excellent, a little worn and lightly tarnished from age. One bird handle is a little bent. There is an old fissure from the production process below the same handle. The interior of the bowl has been partly polished.

Remarks: This is an authentic and very nice fine-silver libation cup from the Bolivian altiplano, believed to be from the southern Province of Aroma near the Oruro border. The cup consists of a thick, hand-hammered ingot bowl with chased arced designs embellished with crude stamp work. There is a relatively large silver revolving bull in the center of the bowl. The bull is complete with long spines representing his chest, a long, flat tail and extremely long horns. Most bovines in Bolivia have relatively short horns but this one resembles a Texas longhorn. There are two flat handles in the form of birds with crests that may represent condors. The bowl is not perfectly symmetrical – the rim wavers in height – adding to the primitive nature of this silver art. The cup weighs 75.6 grams, Troy. All of the parts are constructed of fine silver. This is an original antique ceremonial bowl for drinking and offering blessings with awarinti, or pure cane alcohol during indigenous Indian ceremonies. These old silver cups are increasingly more difficult to encounter.

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