Auction 104 After sale
Zemanek-Münster

Calabash with stopper

Tanzania, Zigua
sold EUR 600
Provenance
Marc Leo Felix, Brussels, Belgium (“FE 9268”)
Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany
Bruno Heimberg (1933-2023), Munich, Germany
Size
H: 17,5 cm
H: 6.9 inch

Description

pumpkin, wood, glass beads, wire, partly sticky sacrificial patina, handwritten collection no. “FE 9268”

Calabashes were used as containers for medicines, ointments, colour pigments, sacred oils and symbolic substances.


Publications

Felix, Marc L., "Mwana Hiti", München 1990, p. 264, ill. 86

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