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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Taupou, post: 4104092, member: 45&quot;]It looks similar to Shipibo pottery, but it isn&#039;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).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>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.&nbsp; The Quichua are from the Amazon region of Ecuador.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The Quichua, tribe uses similar clay and colors, but the design patterns are different.&nbsp; Shipibo designs are taken from their traditional textile designs, and are generally more &quot;maze-like.&quot;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>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.&nbsp; 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 &quot;From Myth to Creation, Art from Amazonian Ecuador,&quot; by Dorothea S. and Norman E. Whitten, and &quot;Rain Forest Visions, Amazonian Ceramics from Ecuador&quot; edited by Scott A. Shields, (which are probably better at fact-checking than on line listings.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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