- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Gourd-shaped black pottery jar, unfinished, with incised pattern below the neck.
- Geographical reference
- Western Region [Hoima, Kibale, Masindi districts] / Bunyoro-Kitara
- Cultural groups
- Nyoro
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1935
- Date collected
- By 1935
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1935
- Materials and processes
- Material Pottery, Process Incised, Process Handbuilt, Process Coiled, Process Polished
- Dimensions
- Height: max 185 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1935.33.2
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