Large calabash ·  Tanzanie, Sukuma · ID: 3035120

Description

waisted in the middle, wrapped with stripes of animal skin and a string of white glass beads, two metal bells attached, leather band for support, stopper in shape of a human head with red glass bead eyes rising from a long shaft, slightly dam., encrusted with clay, corrosion, hairline cracks;
mainly used as containers for medicines, ointments, pigments, sacred oils, and symbolic substances. Sometimes gourds with anthropomorphic stoppers were placed on top of small stools to serve as ancestor figure.

L’objet Large calabash avec l’ID d’objet 3035120 a fait partie de la dernière vente aux enchères 73rd tribal art auction dans 25 mai 2013 le Zemanek-Münster Hôtel des ventes. L’objet portant le numéro de lot 72 a atteint un prix de vente de 450 €.

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