Cake, green fibrous matter (nuts) for mixing with butter and lakula and rubbing on body
Item
Title
Cake, green fibrous matter (nuts) for mixing with butter and lakula and rubbing on body
Creator
Creator Unrecorded
Subject
Organic Matter
Description
Cake (edilo) is made from pounded nuts (emeke). It is stood for 20 days in a heavy copper ring then pounded again and mixed with lukula powder and butter. Rubbed on the body and hair of both men and women. This is according to the Duplicate Memorandum Book (see below).
Publisher
Making African Connections
Date
c. 1930
Type
PhysicalObject
Format
Organic
Identifier
1455 (Old Number)
Source
1936
Diana and Antoinette Powell-Cotton
Duplicate Memorandum Book with pencil writing 'Angola 1936' on cover - p. 54
Diana and Antoinette Powell-Cotton
Duplicate Memorandum Book with pencil writing 'Angola 1936' on cover - p. 54
Relation
Crushed nuts, 1458 (Old Number)
Space/Place
Africa
Angola
Enclosure of Piu. Calemba. Before Mupa.
Cultural group: Kwanyama
[HFD 19/07/2021]
Angola
Enclosure of Piu. Calemba. Before Mupa.
Cultural group: Kwanyama
[HFD 19/07/2021]
Rights
© The Powell-Cotton Trust
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