Perfect Double-Sided Blue on White Painted Wooden PONY Sign porridge bowls These two intensively painted clay

These two intensively painted clay bowls were made by indigenous Canelos Quichua women in the Oriente (upper Amazonian) region of Ecuador

with fancy ash splint "porcupine" curls all around the sides of the basket and lid

really great

Almost all of the pieces--shaped like arrows and paddles and bows and spades--have a number value written on one side

The visible neck of the snake is about 2 1/2" long

Perfect Double-Sided Blue on White Painted Wooden PONY Sign porridge bowls These two intensively painted clayThis old PONY sign is, to me, pure perfection. Aesthetically, this alligatored lapis blue against creamy white is about as good as is gets, but then is a made a hundred times better yet for spelling out the word "Pony" which, in my mind, embodies the dreamy dreams of adolescent girls everywhere; visions of a sugar cube and carrot eating, blue ribbon winning, gentle and true, gracefully galloping horse. The hand painted letters march along a horizontal