Bowl

AF1314

From: Kasai District | Belgian Congo

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number AF1314
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Baluba | Kalosh
Provenience Kasai District | Belgian Congo
Section African
Materials Gourd
Description

Two bands of deeply cut and blackened grooves on exterior below rim (from catalogue card). Gourd bowl; uneven top end; five blackened grooves carved below rim; seven vertically slanted blackened triangles encircle center of the gourd, with one groove at top and on below (source of this description unknown)

Height 9.7 cm
Outside Diameter 16.5 cm
Credit Line Purchased from J. F. G. Umlauff, 1912
Other Number 918 - Field No SF | AF1316 - Other Number

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