milk-container;
drinking-vessel
- Museum number
- Af1991,07.10.a-b
- Description
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Bulbous, tandu-ware milk- or honey-container (a) of brown hide, ornamented at neck with three bands of stitching. Seated in loose-woven basketry container of vegetable fibre with loop of rope incorporating strand of green and red textile. Separate stopper (b) of hide, hollow to form drinking vessel, with flat top incised with cross with flared ends.
- Production date
- 1990 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 46 centimetres (a)
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Height: 12 centimetres (b)
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Width: 37 centimetres (a)
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Width: 20 centimetres (b)
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Depth: 37 centimetres (a)
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Depth: 19.50 centimetres (b)
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Generally good. Notch broken is side of stopper (b).
- Acquisition date
- 1991
- Acquisition notes
- Af1991,07.1 to 11 were purchased from Stephen O Taylor. The group is recorded in the purchase book as "A small ethnographic collection from East Africa including objects from Kenya, Somalia and Uganda".
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1991,07.10.a-b