- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- A black wooden bowl with a round bottom, undecorated. [NC 02/10/2015]
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1910
- Date collected
- 1910
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1948
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Height: max 76 mm, Diameter: max 180 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1948.4.10
- Research and responses
This object was examined by Karen Milbourne (National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution). The visit took place 09/10/2015. [NC 14/12/2015]
For an account of the workshop of King Lewanika (1842-1916; reg. 1878-1916), see 'Lewanika's Workshop and the Vision of Lozi Arts, Zambia', by Karen E. Milbourne, in Sidney Littlefield Kasfir and Till Förster (eds), African Art and Agency in the Workshop (African Expressive Culture series), Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press (2013), pp. 233-51. [JC 5 11 2014]
1948.4.10
A black wooden bowl with a round bottom, undecorated. [NC 02/10/2015]
1948.4.10
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