Maruja, The Master Potter of Las Piñas. Maruja, La Ollera Maestra de Las Piñas. from 6th september black Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 33 min 70 sec
✓ Published: 03-Sep-2013

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I filmed this video in September of 2001.It deals with a utilitarian pottery manufacturing tradition typical of the lower Guayas Basin region of coastal Ecuador.The settlement of Las Piñas is located northeast of the city of Daule on the road to El Laurel, the parish center (la cabecera de la parroquia).nnThe method of making pottery for domestic use that you see here is clearly pre-Hispanic. It owes nothingto the Spanish who introduced the potter's wheel and the kiln into the Ecuador