Pottery

Jar

72-1-2

From: Cameroon | Be

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number 72-1-2
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Fulani
Provenience Cameroon | Be
Period Modern
Section African
Materials Ceramic
Description

Entire exterior decorated with cord braid rouletting. Entire exterior coated with red paint-like substance (hematite?). Interior lip: white substance in vertical stripes. Band of stick-punctate at body. Neck-join covered with band of brown paint-like substance. Body of pot painted (?) with white and brown stripes, six long white vertical and alternating zones of brown, then white diagonal stripes.

Height 19 cm
Outside Diameter 15 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Cameroon Government; Cameroon Archaeological Reconnaisance; Frank Bartell and Nicholas C. David, 1972

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