Oval wooden bowl [.1] with lid [.2]. Six duck figures on the lid. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 8/12/2004]

Collection type: Object
Description: Oval wooden bowl [.1] with lid [.2]. Six duck figures on the lid. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 8/12/2004]
Geographical reference: Botswana
Africa > Southern Africa > Botswana; Namibia
Africa > Southern Africa > Namibia; Okavango River Andara
Person: Field collector Edward James Lugard; PRM source Edward James Lugard
Date / Period: Date made: Possibly before 1898
Date collected: ?1898
Acquisition information: Donated: 08/1949
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material Pigment, Process Carved, Process Painted
Dimensions: Length: max 480 mm, Length: max 485 mm, Height: max 100 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1949.8.68.1 Accession number: 1949.8.68.2 Other PRM accession number: 1949.8.68a Other PRM accession number: 1949.8.68b
Research and responses: The location for this entry seems to be a town called Andara on the Okavango River. This is on the Caprivi Strip in Namibia, and area that was formerly British territory and part of Northwestern Botswana which lies only a short distance to the south. [Encyclopædia Britannica Online] [CF 6/6/2000]