Round bowl, reddish black pottery, with loop handle capped with two-lobed thumb rest and with tubular spout. [MOBB [OPS move] 19/02/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Round bowl, reddish black pottery, with loop handle capped with two-lobed thumb rest and with tubular spout. [MOBB [OPS move] 19/02/2016]
Long description: Round bowl, reddish black pottery, with loop handle capped with two-lobed thumb rest and with tubular spout. There is a broad ornamental relief band with a design of undulating lines, each having a lizard head and forelegs at either end, rosettes, circular and elliptical dots. This object has been broken and repaired. [MOBB [OPS move] 19/02/2016]
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 165 mm approx, Width: max 410 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1942.13.228 Other numbers: 452

Search terms: Vessel, Pottery, Bowl

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