Description:

Pre-Columbian, Columbia and Ecuador, La Tolita (sometimes Tumaco), ca. 600 BCE to 200 CE. A hand-built pottery effigy grater, or rollador, in the shape of a fish with stone chips at the center. The body is an elongated ovoid shape with a pointed tail end and a rounded head. The central portion of the body has been inset with small sharp stone chips to form the abraded grating area. The center is delineated from the rest of the body with a shallow incised line bordering the stones, and other incised lines form gills, mouth, and nose of the fish's head. Grater plates like this example were used to scrape the scales off fish prior to cooking, and the wide surface meant that even large fish could be quickly descaled. Size: 10.25" L x 3.25" W (26 cm x 8.3 cm); 5.375" H (13.7 cm) on included custom stand.

Provenance: private Hawaii, USA collection; ex-Arte Primitivo, New York City, New York, USA

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  • Condition: Minor abrasion to tail area. Several stones missing from grater area. Otherwise intact with mineral deposits and earthen encrustations.

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