Calabash ·  Tanzania, Zaramo · ID: 3032269

Description

wood, pumpkin, oily patina, of bellied form, peg in form of a “mwana hiti” figure, min. dam., slight traces of usage;
mainly used as containers for medicines, ointments, pigments, sacred oils, and symbolic substances. Sometimes gourds with anthropomorphic stoppers were placed on top of small stools to serve as ancestor figure.

The object Calabash with the object ID 3032269 was last part of the auction 68th tribal art auction at March 3, 2012 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 267 achieved a sales price of EUR 60.

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