Wooden butter pot on four short legs, with stopper, decorated with incised zigzag patterns

Item

Title

Wooden butter pot on four short legs, with stopper, decorated with incised zigzag patterns

Creator

Creator Unrecorded

Description

Carved wooden butter pot on four short squared legs. The main body of the pot is divided in the middle by a rounded horizontal band with burnt zigzag decoration above and below the band. Below the band there is a square handle on one side. Above the band the shape flares out. The burnt decorative lines continue over the flat rim at the top of the pot. There is a carved wooden stopper in the top of the pot with similar decoration, in the shape of a head rest.

Publisher

Making African Connections

Date

c.1930

Type

PhysicalObject

Format

Wood; Plant
Carved

Identifier

ETH.ANG3.906
A37/906

Source

Antoinette and Diana Powell-Cotton
1937

Space/Place

Angola
Africa

Rights

© The Powell-Cotton Trust