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Description:

Photograph in square format. In a long shot, there’s an extensive rural patio with a wooden fence on its left, an earthen floor, and a roof suitable for vines. Over the fence, there’s a wooden wheel hanging, commonly used in carts, and a hen is running on the earthen floor.

Context:

The image is part of a Folk Art field trip to Chillán carried out by Tomás Lago in 1956. Specifically to Quinchamalí, to apply a survey to the potters in the area because of the lack of a bibliography and unfinished research about folk ceramics. For this reason, Tomás Lago carried out a study published in the Art magazine of the Bellas Artes school of the Universidad de Chile, titled Cerámicas de Quinchamalí (Quinchamalí Ceramics) in 1958.

Subjects:
Chile, Outreach, Quinchamalí, Research and Teaching, Tomás Lago