Bowl; Mogopo
Item
Title
Bowl; Mogopo
Creator
Unrecorded
Description
Physical Description: Shallow oval-shaped dark wooden porridge bowl with flat rim. Decorated around the outer rim with triangle shaped holes in a single row pattern and at either smaller end a double row.
Contextual Description: Made from Morula tree wood. TS comments
Contextual Description: 02:16:00 SL: Wooden bowl…he mentioned that wooden bowls were made from Murula. See Murula is very important, you get nuts from it, you get fruit, nuts, you can also carve mortars and wooden bowls. And today, somewhere in this area…[Tswana]…people can make Murula oil…so they come here to the village, like many villages in Tswapong, to buy the murula nuts. People crack them and collect them and they come and buy them and take it to their factory. It’s interesting in that it has created some kind of income generation. Transcription by KL of MAC_BB_20190817_RPM3 SL Interview with Tshupo Ntono, Village Elder, Language: Setswana with English translations by SL, 2019
Contextual Description: WT 1:09:14
But is this a Tswana one? It's really very beautiful and...
GK 1:09:19
The designs
SL 1:09:21
Batswana, ba-pele [translated literally = “of the front” i.e. pioneers or forerunners – TS note] used to make beautiful things. Yes. I have been to NaYuma and I saw barotseware and I thought it was something from that area but it's...the record says...
The above notes are from a transcription by Kathleen Lawther of a discussion between Gase Kediseng, JoAnn McGregor, Nicola Stylianou, Scobie Lekhuthile and Winani Thebele which took place at the Khama III Memorial Museum on the 5th of August 2019. To listen to the full recording please follow the link below.
But is this a Tswana one? It's really very beautiful and...
GK 1:09:19
The designs
SL 1:09:21
Batswana, ba-pele [translated literally = “of the front” i.e. pioneers or forerunners – TS note] used to make beautiful things. Yes. I have been to NaYuma and I saw barotseware and I thought it was something from that area but it's...the record says...
The above notes are from a transcription by Kathleen Lawther of a discussion between Gase Kediseng, JoAnn McGregor, Nicola Stylianou, Scobie Lekhuthile and Winani Thebele which took place at the Khama III Memorial Museum on the 5th of August 2019. To listen to the full recording please follow the link below.
Publisher
Making African Connections
Date
Pre 1899
Type
PhysicalObject
Identifier
R4007/69
Source
Collected by Reverend William Charles Willoughby, a Christian missionary, in what was then the Bechuanaland Protectorate (1885-1966). It is now the Republic of Botswana, having gained independence from Britain in 1966.
From 1889-92 Willoughby was pastor at Union Street Church, Brighton (now The Font pub). From 1893 to 1898 he worked for the London Missionary Society in Bechuanaland. He assembled this collection of objects during this period. This was a period of social and technological changes and these objects represent traditional lifestyles and skills, rather than the contemporary lives of the people Willoughby met.
Willoughby's collection was loaned to Brighton Museum in 1899 when he returned to the UK. The loan was converted into a donation in 1936, and accessioned as acquisition R4007.
Some objects were re-numbered with the WA (World Art) numbering system in the 2000s. These numbers have been reverted to the original R4007/... numbers where possible for consistency in 2019.
From 1889-92 Willoughby was pastor at Union Street Church, Brighton (now The Font pub). From 1893 to 1898 he worked for the London Missionary Society in Bechuanaland. He assembled this collection of objects during this period. This was a period of social and technological changes and these objects represent traditional lifestyles and skills, rather than the contemporary lives of the people Willoughby met.
Willoughby's collection was loaned to Brighton Museum in 1899 when he returned to the UK. The loan was converted into a donation in 1936, and accessioned as acquisition R4007.
Some objects were re-numbered with the WA (World Art) numbering system in the 2000s. These numbers have been reverted to the original R4007/... numbers where possible for consistency in 2019.
William Charles Willoughby
Botswana, Southern Africa, Africa
1893-1898
Space/Place
Botswana, Southern Africa, Africa
Cultural Group: Barotse; Lozi
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
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