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Chulucanas's
ceramics have cultural deep roots that they are born in the pre-Hispanic cultures Tallán and Vicus (500 years A.D.), extended
in the north of Peru. The culture Vicús, developed to scanty kilometres of Chulucanas's city, contributed
the technology(skill) of decoration " in negative " that has turned into the principal characteristic of Chulucanas's ceramics.
For his part, the culture Tallán, developed nearby to Piura's
current city, inherited the technique of the paleteado, a singular way of shaping jars just using a palette of wood and a
rounded stone.
This technique consists of striking the external part of the jar rhythmically with the palette, whereas
for the interior, with the stone like anvil, one is slimming and giving form to the jar, needing of many practice and skill
of the potter ceramist.
The production of ceramics re-arises in Chulucanas in them 60's with the ceramists
Máx Inga Adanaque, Gerásimo Sosa Alache and Jose Luis Yamunaqué, children of potters, who with their imagination and creativity
rescued the technique of the Vicús and the Tallanes. These young men were the impellers of the ceramics, thanks to the influence
of the religious sister Gloria Joyce, who led them to exposing their talent to the USA. From then, their worry made them investigate more in the ceramics of the Vicús,
their contributing to the creativity and modern offers; being constituted in
the predecessors of many young ceramists.
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