Round bowl of black pottery, with a loop handle and capped with a long oval thumb rest with constricting cross band. It has a tubular projection, a dummy spout, opposite the handle, and is decorated with raised undulating snake design round rim.

Collection type: Object
Description: Round bowl of black pottery, with a loop handle and capped with a long oval thumb rest with constricting cross band. It has a tubular projection, a dummy spout, opposite the handle, and is decorated with raised undulating snake design round rim.
Geographical reference: Cameroon
Africa > Central Africa > Cameroon; Bamenda
Person: Field collector Mervyn David Waldegrave Jeffreys; PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1942
Date collected: By 1942
Acquisition information: Donated: 1942
Materials and processes: Material Pottery
Dimensions: Height: max 135 mm, Width: max 300 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1942.13.53

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