Five receptacles ·  Cameroun · ID: 3036567

Description

a) Nsei/Babessi, food bowl with handle and spout, terracotta, blackish brown coating, round bottom, on ring-shaped base, h: 12,5 cm, d: 16 cm, encrustations in some places, crack; b) food bowl rising from a base in openwork design, wood, shiny black patina, h: 15,5 cm, d: 17,5 cm, missing parts (rim and base); c) receptacle for water or palmwine, Fumban, calabash, reddish brown patina, foot and handle of rattan network, h: 44,5 cm, minor missing part (base); d) ritual vessel with burls, remains of red and black pigment, magical loading with twigs and feathers, cord material, ring-shaped base coated with leather, h: 29 cm;e) ritual vessel, Togo (?), terracotta, brown coating, bellied corpus with opening and decorating burles, h: 17,5 cm, slightly dam.;

Littérature comparée

Stößel, Arnulf, Afrikanische Keramik, München 1984, ill. 288 (a) Dagan, Esther A., The African Calabash, New York 1988, p. 118, ill. 102 (c)