Gourd vessel. A waist-necked gourd ornamented with blackened quatrefoils, triangles and eight lobed ‘windmills’, the blackened areas also ornamented with inset white seed beads. Two bands of incised cross-hatching enclose the two rows of triangles. The stopper is made of a mealie cob with black and natural-coloured knob with twined fastening on top.
L-1 Vessel
Object Number
JL-L-1
Artist
Date produced
Unknown
Attribution/location
Medium/materials
Dimensions (cms)
31.8 x 17.9 x 17.9
Description
Provenance
Unknown
Additional information
Calabashes of this shape and size (but usually undecorated) were used
to hold a decoction given in place of ordinary water to newly-born
infants to promote their growth
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Digital rights
Brenthurst Library