Vessel

29-12-248B

From: Niger | French Sudan | Upper Senegal

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number 29-12-248B
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Habe
Provenience Niger | French Sudan | Upper Senegal
Section African
Materials Wood
Description

Wood. Said to be a "sacrificial urn" from a fetish house. Colored black. Two compartments, the upper with a lid surmounted by the conventionalized head of an animal. This is a receptacle for the food of a Hogon. See Desplagnes, Le Plateau Central Nigerian, Fig. 109

Height 24 cm
Outside Diameter 19 cm
Credit Line Purchased from J. Laporte, 1929

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