Cardinal Red Gourd Vase Vessel Bowl 3.5" Hand Carved Peru

Cardinal Bowl Vessel Handcrafted Gourd Bowl

• Cardinal Carved Vessel Red Natural Dyes
• Unique Bowl Made in Cochas Peru
• 5" Dyed with Natural Pigments
• Unique Design very limited production
• Nature inspired Wild Birds of North America

The mate burilado (carved gourd) is made with a tool called buril –from which its name is derived– with which the craftsman or matero makes incisions on the gourd and then it is decorated by partially fire branding it on a stove made out of quinwual (a tree original form the Andes) tree branches. This technique is known as fire branding. On the other hand, the painted gourd is decorated with ink soaked brushes. When the gourd is decorated with a combination of styles, different materials are added to the decorations, such as semi-precious stones, marine shells, metals and other elements.
The gourd is a vegetable of great importance to Peruvian culture. At the start, the first ceramics of the wayra jirka style of the Kotosh culture, the craftsmen created vessels by copying the shapes on this vegetable.