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.