Two calabashes with stopper ·  Tanzania · ID: 3035112

Description

pumpkin, wood, dark- and blackish brown patina, a) Kaguru, waisted form, the spherical corpus coated with fur, stopper in shape of a human head, white glass bead eyes, dam. (breakage), minor missing part; b) Zaramo, the waisted middle adorned by strings of polychrome glass beads, wooden stopper carved with janus head, crowned by a big red bead (pressed in mass), slightly dam.