Bottle shaped gourd with a handle made of plant fibre wrapped in hide

Item

Title

Bottle shaped gourd with a handle made of plant fibre wrapped in hide

Creator

Creator Unrecorded

Subject

Vessel

Description

Large bottle shaped gourd, wrapped around the bottom half with two handles made of plant fibre wrapped in hide. There is a hole in the top which has been reinforced with woven plant fibre around the rim. Notes made by the Powell-Cotton sisters suggest that the handle are for tying the gourd to a pole for churning.

Publisher

Making African Connections

Date

c.1930

Type

PhysicalObject

Format

Gourd; Plant
Wound

Identifier

ETH.ANG2.438
A36/438

Source

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

Space/Place

Angola
Africa

Rights

© The Powell-Cotton Trust