Bidspirit auction | 4 Guna Shamanic Apothecary Mixing

4 Guna Shamanic Apothecary Mixing Dishes & ”Orsar” Wood Pestle - Four small bowls, believed to be medicine dishes, although they may have had household uses as well.  Selling along with a small hand carved pestle.  This group was collected during the historic 1960s Kapp-Darien expeditions to the Guna (Kuna/Cuna) culture of Panama. * Four small dishes, ranging from 2.5” to 5” wide and only a couple inches tall.  Three are hand-carved wood, and one is a hand-made earthenware clay dish with two handles and drainage holes.  These little vessels would have been used by healers to portion, steep or mix concentrated herbal pastes. * ”Orsar” hand-carved mahogany pestle with field use and signs of age, 7” long, with original field collection tag reading: ”ORSAR” small wooden pestle made from CAOBA wood. From SAN IGNACIO de TUPILE, San Blas, R. de Panama. 19 June 1969. Provenance: From the collection of Captain Kit S. Kapp (1926–2013), American explorer, ethnologist, and cartographer.  Collected during his historic expeditions to the San Blas Islands and Darién region of Panama between 1961 and 1972.