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Pre-Columbian
Reproducation Ceramics
The ceramic reproductions we carry at our gallery are replicas from the Chorrero civilization, whose people inhabited the tropical coastal regions of Ecuador from 1500 - 500 B.C. Agriculture and fishing were their main sources of food. Their principal agricultural products were beans, peanuts, yucca, and maize (corn) from which, among other food dishes, they made Chicha, a traditional beer-like beverage still produced today. The Chorreros and other civilizations like them produced a plethora of ceramics: ceremonial vessels, chicha bottles, plates, vases, urns, and figurines among others. They added a whistle to this pottery like the high-pitched whistle of one of the coastal birds, a parrot. A father and son team make all of our reproductions by hand. They are baked in small wood-fired ovens and follow the traditional Chorrero designs.
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