Lump of dried, dark brown fibrous cake, with some lighter brown plant fibres visible.

Item

Title

Lump of dried, dark brown fibrous cake, with some lighter brown plant fibres visible.

Creator

Creator Unrecorded

Subject

Food

Description

Lump of dried, dark brown fibrous cake, with some lighter brown plant fibres visible. It is made of aloe flower, pumpkin or material left over from beer making. There are groove marks from fingers on one side where small amounts have been scraped off the cake to be eaten with porridge.

Publisher

Making African Connections

Date

c.1930

Type

PhysicalObject

Format

Plant; Fibre

Identifier

ETH.ANG2.1422
A36/1422

Source

The Powell-Cotton Museum
Antoinette and Diana Powell-Cotton
1936

Space/Place

Cunene Province [province], Neone [town also called Cafima]
Angola
Africa
Cultural Group: Okwanyama

Rights

© The Powell-Cotton Trust