- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Clay Mkaramo figure. An off-centre, tapering cylinder with a rounded head. Probably phallic. [BA [OPS Move] 6/7/2017]
- Long description
- Mkaramo figure used to teach morals to boys in puberty rituals. [BA [OPS Move] 6/7/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Pangani
- Cultural groups
- Zigula
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1958
- Date collected
- From 1951-1958
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1958
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 19 mm, Width: max 18 mm, Height: max 52 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1958.11.3.88 Other numbers: [male symbol] 154 664
- Research and responses
Figurines from Tanganyika reads : ... [See 1958.11.3.1 for full entry] ...[Retrospective number:] 664 [male symbol] 154. Kauzika. Boy who cursed his father is buried.
Search terms: Children and Childcare, Ritual and Ceremonial, Figure, Pottery, Ceremonial Object, Religious Object, Prayer Object
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