Pot with nine spouts ·  Uganda / Rwanda / Burundi / Tutsi · ID: 3048560

Description

red terracotta / ceramics, blackened, rest.

According to Kecskesi, similar pots were used in earlier times to give medicinal beer to convicts shortly before their execution.

Comparing literature

Morin, Floriane & Wastiau, Boris (ed.), African Terra Cottas, In the Barbier-Mueller Museums Collections, Geneva 2008, p. 378, Ill. 2