Peru pot?

I felt for sure that this was Peruvian, but now that I'm searching, I'm not finding the pattern / style. Any ideas?

 

It looks like Shipibo pottery.

 

Thank you!

 

It looks similar to Shipibo pottery, but it isn't Shipibo, and may have been made in Ecuador. I have seen this design attributed to both the Quichua and to the Achuar (several spellings, sometimes called Ashuar).

The Achuar live in the Amazon region of Peru, also, but on both sides of the Peru/Ecuador border, so they are sometimes listed as an Ecuadorian tribe. The Quichua are from the Amazon region of Ecuador.

The Quichua, tribe uses similar clay and colors, but the design patterns are different. Shipibo designs are taken from their traditional textile designs, and are generally more "maze-like."

I have always considered this pattern to be associated with the Quichua, but I have seen this same pattern attributed on line to the Achuar. Whether both tribes use it, or those listings are incorrect, all I know is a pot with this design pattern is illustrated on the front covers of the books "From Myth to Creation, Art from Amazonian Ecuador," by Dorothea S. and Norman E. Whitten, and "Rain Forest Visions, Amazonian Ceramics from Ecuador" edited by Scott A. Shields, (which are probably better at fact-checking than on line listings.)

 

Thank you so much for your expertise.

The tag on it when I purchased said only, "Origin unknown." I guess so!