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Vessel "abusua kuruwa" ·  Ghana, Ashanti · ID: 3035315

Vendu 240 €
Provenance
German Private Collection, Hamburg, collected in situ (1959 - 1965)

Description

brown, partly blackened clay, with long neck, a stopper in shape of a cocoon (proverb: “a peculiar person’s character is not easily to be determined”), dam., missing parts, fine cracks, slight traces of abrasion;
for centuries the deceased of the Akan received a more or less elaborate decorated family vessel “abusua kuruwa.


Littérature comparée

Schädler, Karl-Ferdinand, Keramik aus Schwarz-Afrika und Alt-Amerika, Zürich 1985, p. 65


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